Barry Margolin <barry.margolin at level3.com> wrote in message news:<bm6f9s$30a1$1 at sf1.isc.org>... [snip] > > Check you /etc/nsswitch.conf -- maybe you're configured to use another > resolving mechanism, and it's failing. It never even occured to me to bother with nsswitch.conf. That cleared it all up. I owe you a beer Barry! Bobby