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   Message 712 of 1,458   
   Roy Witt to Robert Wolfe   
   2.31 official?   
   08 Feb 13 16:51:51   
   
   Robert Wolfe wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>>> Yes and yes. v2.31 was a fix for Linux system users and doesn't   
    RW>>> have any problems working in a Windows environment.   
      
    RW>> I believe it has some issues with resolving DNS on outbound connects   
    RW>> though with newer distro releases.  Something to do with some   
    RW>> libraries.   
      
    RW>> I've not run into that problem in a WinXP environment. I believe   
    RW>> 2.31 was a release that addressed the way Linux systems used   
    RW>> outdated libraries.   
      
    RW> I've run into this issue on Win Vista and 7 machines where Internet   
    RW> Rex just hangs when run from the ocmmand line using the -f and -s   
    RW> command line parameters.  This does not seem to be the case when   
    RW> running the parameters as an internal event.   
      
   That is an old, old problem with Rex...it is supposed to be able to read   
   the nodelist and do a fetch or send, but it won't...not much you can do   
   about it, since for all intents and purposes, Irex is abandonware...   
      
      
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