>> Debian does present a problem.

> Depends on the version...  As you many not be aware; Debian Woody (v3) was
> released in 2002 (and later superceded in 2005) and therefore uses the older
>versions of the standard C libraries.  Which, IIRC, was the issue with running
> IRex on Linux systems...

You remember correctly.  The way around this is to use IP addresses of
uplinks instead of using FQDNs.

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