By the way, if NANOG people are interested in learning more about building your own name servers you might want to go to Yahoo and type "lbnamed". That stands for load balancing "named". You will probably locate a reference to... http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html With that code, you should be able to build your own TRUE Root Name Server in a day or two. Have fun... -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)