Here we go again. If you get reports of problems that appear to be DNS weirdness, _this_ could be the reason why: "Warever Corp. this week released Legion, an Internet utility that looks up IP addresses, puts them in a hosts file, and categorizes them." http://www.internetnews.com/prod-news/article/0,1087,9_74021,00.html Round robin? Load balancing? Provider replacement(!)? Why would anyone want to do _those_ things...? Cheers, -- jr '204.198.80.3' a -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592