Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think the problem lies there though. On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:52:42AM -0500, Damian Menscher wrote: > Wild guess, not knowing your setup: > grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns As it should be, I think (files first). BTW, gethostip works: $ gethostip piston01 piston01.boiler 192.168.253.1 C0A8FD01 Eric