Hi, The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very similar functions. What's the difference? When do you use one and not the other, etc.?? jim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null