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echo: irex
to: Robert Wolfe
from: Roy Witt
date: 2013-02-08 16:51:50
subject: 2.31 official?

Robert Wolfe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>> Yes and yes. v2.31 was a fix for Linux system users and doesn't
 RW>>> have any problems working in a Windows environment.

 RW>> I believe it has some issues with resolving DNS on outbound connects
 RW>> though with newer distro releases.  Something to do with some
 RW>> libraries.

 RW>> I've not run into that problem in a WinXP environment. I believe
 RW>> 2.31 was a release that addressed the way Linux systems used
 RW>> outdated libraries.

 RW> I've run into this issue on Win Vista and 7 machines where Internet
 RW> Rex just hangs when run from the ocmmand line using the -f and -s
 RW> command line parameters.  This does not seem to be the case when
 RW> running the parameters as an internal event.

That is an old, old problem with Rex...it is supposed to be able to read
the nodelist and do a fetch or send, but it won't...not much you can do
about it, since for all intents and purposes, Irex is abandonware...


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