The other thing that bugs me is when I have file or print sharing enabled, my Win 98 machines are always doing this: Jun 4 07:31:52 mardy named[8612]: XX+/192.168.0.98/\\MAILSLOT.hank.org/A/IN BTW -- what's the XX+? I've also seen simply XX. Is that documented somepace? Bill Moseley mailto:moseley at hank.org