Gene writes: > At risk of repeating myself forever, I don't need an unstable address, > I don't want whatever the heck is left in the pool. Hosts files do > that, dhcp doesn't. It just hands out the next number in the pool. > hosts files are static. A forveer lease. You're doing things the hard way, but whatever. In any case that Klipper box is not running Debian: your are on the wrong forum. -- John Hasler john@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA