Subj : Irex and Argue
To   : mark lewis
From : Gaylen Hintz
Date : Wed May 29 2019 05:25 pm

-=> mark lewis spoke thus 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

ah yes, that would create problems for Irex users and connections with those
linux systems.

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...

bummer!  Maybe I got out at the right time. :)  Well to be honest I was
running Mystic the last year of two that I actually had a board.


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