[ale] Only BitchX not resolving hostnames...

[nlucent at mindspring.com (Nick Lucent)]

I dont know if your getting my mail, so Im replying to all...
I have the same problem, if you immediately do a /quit then start it again
mine resolves fine, but I always have to do it twice. try it and see if it
works for you.

Nick

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, David S. Jackson wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This one has got me stumped:
> 
> All my other services and applications (after an upgrade RHL 4.2 to 5.1 on
> this host) seem to be working fine as far as DNS goes.  But when I fire up
> BitchX as --->$ bitchx dsj irc.efnet.net
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> ?????? BitchX: File not found: bxglobal
> >>> You have new Mail
> ?????? BitchX: File not found: /home/dsj/.BitchX/BitchX.sav
> ?????? BitchX: Auto Response is set to - dsj
> ?????? Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.efnet.net
> ?????? Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.efnet.net: No such file or
>           directory
> 
> 
> Then a moment later:
> 
> ?????? BitchX: Servers exhausted. Restarting. [1]	  
> 
> Now, when I fire up ircII in exactly the same way, I get success just as I
> would expect and as BitchX should have done.
> 
> Strange, huh?  I've compiled this thing a bunch of times, and I've tried
> several different binaries.  Seems to be Bx specific.  DNS elseways seems to
> be fine.  Http, ftp, etc.  No problems.  The boxes behind my firewall using
> BitchX connect just fine.  I'm using my IP Masq machine right now.  Weird,
> huh?
> 
> Let me know what you think.  TIA!
> 
> --
> David S. Jackson                           http://www.dsj.net
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