[ale] Only BitchX not resolving hostnames...

[dsj at dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

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!

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David S. Jackson                           http://www.dsj.net
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