Subj : Re: Irex and Argue
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed May 29 2019 03:59 pm

-=> 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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