I don't know how to turn it off, but I've found it doesn't cause a problem (even when there is no DNS for it to draw it's name from). It just times out and goes on about it's business. Are you sure you don't have some other problem holding it up? Justin Leitgeb wrote: > > I'm running Kickstart (RedHat 6.2) and am having problems because the workstations do a reverse DNS lookup to resolve their hostnames. > > Does anyone know how to turn off the reverse lookup? Thanks in advance, > > Justin -- Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances http://www.swelltech.com