...so when my Netscape stopped being able to find web pages (well, actually it couldn't even find my squid) after a libc upgrade, it wasn't actually a Netscape bug after all? It's not only daemons that do name service lookups; user applications do to. I'd have thought that the solution more or less *has* to be on the Libc side of things, to avoid breaking user sessions. ttfn/rjk