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echo: irex
to: mark lewis
from: Roy Witt
date: 2012-03-16 04:05:26
subject: Win Version was: Bug report

15 Mar 12 13:30, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 jc>>> Some people stated (unless I am misunderstanding) that they paid
 jc>>> for the 1000 node Linux version, got the key, and the software does
 jc>>> not even execute on Linux.

 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
 ml>> newer libs... it works just fine with IP numbers, though...
 ml>> especially since there is no DNS lookup for them ;)

 RW>> DNS lookups in the Windows version works just fine.

 ml> right... i was speaking of the linux flavor of IREX...

Since there are 4 OS versions of Rex, please state in your messages which
one you're referring to. Telling a Win OS user that Rex doesn't do
something (while speaking of Linux) leads some people a-stray.

                R\%/itt


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