first, thanks again for your replies. Rick, no worries, i was not led astray, just having to digest the info a byte at a time... Tony, i believe chances are you're right, & possibly the problem is at my provider's end... Mikkel, my context on /etc/ppp/ip-up matches yours & permissions on resolv.conf: -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:net_conf_t:s0 /etc/resolv.conf (looks good?) so far i haven't been able to reproduce the outage, i'm starting to think my software is good, and the issue might be bad updates from at&t.... charles zeitler -- Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines