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 Message 1301 
 Andrew Leary to Alan Ianson 
 Download IREX for UNIX/LINUX 
 14 Jun 16 02:55:44 
 
Hello Alan!

11 Jun 16 15:25, you wrote to Allen Prunty:

 AI> I used to use the linux version of irex under kernel 2.4. When the 2.6
 AI> kernel went mainstream irex stopped working. I don't know why that is
 AI> exactly but I could never overcome that.

There were changes in DNS resolution between kernel 2.4 and 2.6 that broke the 
libraries that IREX was compiled with.  It actually will work under kernel 2.6 
if you specify all of your connections by IP address instead of hostname.

Andrew

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