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   Andrew Leary to Deepend   
   IREX in background on lin   
   14 Dec 15 07:44:57   
   
   Hello Deepend!   
      
   14 Dec 15 03:16, you wrote to Daryl Stout:   
      
    De> Under windows I had it installed as a service.. In linux it was a bit   
    De> more of a fight for me.   Everything seems to be functioning as   
    De> intended.  Wish there was a fix for IRex for linux though.  Since I   
    De> have to specify IP addresses for my binkp nodes to connect to instead   
    De> of being able to specify hostnames. (hostnames wont resolve in the   
    De> linux version no matter what I do)   
      
   This is due to changes in Linux since IRex was released.  IRex for Linux came    
   out when the kernel was at 2.4.x.  IIRC, changes to DNS resolving in kernel    
   2.6.x broke the library that Charles Cruden used in the Linux version of IRex.    
   The only solution is to do one of 2 things:   
      
   1.  Specify all connections via IP address instead of hostname.   
   2.  Switch away from IRex.  BinkD is known to work well in currrent versions    
   of Linux, along with mbcico (the mailer included with MBSE BBS), ifcico, and a    
   few others.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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