} no this is not authoritative. I actually have my ecc domain hosted } elsewhere..i simply clal my machines internally that to keep it simple } so there are behind a nat in RFC1918 space at the house here. } please forgive yet i recommend dig for dns testing almost all of the time. although nslookup is ok i recall instances years ago where dig used properly returned right answers and helped find problem when nslookup was totally wrong. could have been the resolver libraries, i dont recall. just a preference. if you are trying to reverse lookup that x.x.x.200 ip address or whatever private space, like the others said, you have to run your own dns and i do not know if caching truly supports this authoritatively as well... see below. chalk up the caching nameserver experience and go to chroot bind IMHO. -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net