>From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working. $ cat hostalias deb ftp.debian.org $ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias $ ftp deb ftp: deb: Name or service not known Has anyone gotten HOSTALIASES to work properly? I'm running sarge. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com