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echo: irex
to: mark lewis
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2012-03-15 11:37:30
subject: Bug report

Hello mark,

On Wednesday March 14 2012 13:26, you wrote to james coyle:

 ml> no... the problem is that it cannot perform domain name lookups
 ml> because it uses an old method that is no longer supported by the newer
 ml> libs... it works just fine with IP numbers, though... especially since
 ml> there is no DNS lookup for them ;)

That workaround works only for static IP numbers. Many - if not most -
nodes are on a dynamic IP.


Cheers, Michiel

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