Re: VNC server stops responding after a few days

Paul Dunn <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.vnc.user
Message-ID <4EC63653.5010301__15356.6926521764$1321869458$gmane$org@cyconix.com>
On 16/11/2011 22:56, Christopher Woods (CustomMade) wrote:

> Surely if a machine has a fixed static IP, it doesn't even enter into
> discussion with the network's DHCP server to request a lease? Just the usual
> broadcast traffic...

I'm not a networking or Windows expert, but this presumably depends on 
whether the client (XP?) actually has the VNC server's IP address in its 
hosts file (something like C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). If it 
doesn't, then it will send a request to get the address from the DHCP 
server. If the client ends up using the IP address supplied by the 
server, then it will eventually expire. I've had exactly this problem on 
another X server (not VNC).

James: what's in your hosts file? And how does the client actually 
connect to the server? What's the VNC command line?

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