11 Jun 16 15:25, you wrote to Allen Prunty:

 AI> I used to use the linux version of irex under kernel 2.4. When the 2.6
 AI> kernel went mainstream irex stopped working. I don't know why that is
 AI> exactly but I could never overcome that.

that was due to the implemention of a new way of looking up DNS addresses...
the format changed and those programs that didn't fell back to requiring IP
addresses instead of domain names... i don't recall if that was ever fixed with
a new release, though...

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