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to: Deepend
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2015-12-14 07:44:56
subject: IREX in background on lin

Hello Deepend!

14 Dec 15 03:16, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

 De> Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit
 De> more of a fight for me.   Everything seems to be functioning as
 De> intended.  Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though.  Since I
 De> have to specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead
 De> of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the
 De> linux version no matter what I do)

This is due to changes in Linux since IRex was released.  IRex for Linux came 
out when the kernel was at 2.4.x.  IIRC, changes to DNS resolving in kernel 
2.6.x broke the library that Charles Cruden used in the Linux version of IRex. 
The only solution is to do one of 2 things:

1.  Specify all connections via IP address instead of hostname.
2.  Switch away from IRex.  BinkD is known to work well in currrent versions 
of Linux, along with mbcico (the mailer included with MBSE BBS), ifcico, and a 
few others.

Andrew

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