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   -=> mark lewis wrote to Gaylen Hintz <=-   
      
    ml> the main thing on linux systems was that DNS lookup stuff changed and   
    ml> IREX did not come out with an update to fix that... as a result, IREX   
    ml> on *nix cannot perform DNS lookups on today's *nix systems... that made   
    ml> it a lot harder for operators because they had to manually look up a   
    ml> node's domain in the DNS and put the IP number in the IREX record for   
    ml> that node... when the IP changes, they have to dance that dance   
    ml> again...   
      
   I remember that issue now.   
      
   You could also get around that using resolv.conf too.   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
       
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