My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 24.115.135.172 cr275960-a cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com Anyway, cr275960-a is a pretty ugly name for my machine, don't you think? Can I change it? -chris