Subj : 2.31 official?
To : Robert Wolfe
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Feb 08 2013 04:51 pm
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 outdated libraries.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...
