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|    Irex and Argue    |
|    29 May 19 10:36:48    |
      REPLY: 456.fidonet-bbscarni@1:19/33 21517601       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5cee99a6       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15               On 2019 May 27 14:34:00, you wrote to Alan Ianson:               GH> FWIW, I used Irex for many years with my ProBoard setup and never had        GH> any real issues with it for most of my links. I have to admit that        GH> some of my linux downlinks though did have problems with it        GH> occasionally. I don't know why it was just the linux systems but it        GH> was. :(              the main thing on linux systems was that DNS lookup stuff changed and IREX did       not come out with an update to fix that... as a result, IREX on *nix cannot       perform DNS lookups on today's *nix systems... that made it a lot harder for       operators because they had to manually look up a node's domain in the DNS and       put the IP number in the IREX record for that node... when the IP changes,       they have to dance that dance again...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... My God lets me eat what I want.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/2 18/0 200 116/116 123/0 25 50 115 150 755 129/215       SEEN-BY: 135/300 153/7715 154/10 20 30 40 700 203/0 221/0 1 6 360       SEEN-BY: 226/17 227/400 229/200 354 426 452 1014 230/0 240/5832 249/206       SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 261/38 280/464 5003 317/3 320/219 322/757 340/800       SEEN-BY: 342/200 393/68 633/0 267 280 281 412 509 640/461 1321 1384       SEEN-BY: 712/620 848 886 770/1 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119       PATH: 3634/12 154/10 221/6 1 640/1384 712/848 633/280 229/426           |
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