On Sat Sep 02 2000 at 16:13, 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, You can't, and you don't want to do that. The real solution is to set up a small DNS server to do the job, but the quick kludge way to get things working is to have /etc/hosts list the IP/host pairs on each box. Cheers Tony