Hello! The buffersize of 512 as defined in cman_tool/join.c seems to be insufficient in some cases. When I tried to add a node with a FQDN of 42 characters in length to the cluster I got the following error message: can't resolve node name <nodename> Since DNS was working correctly both ways the message was plainly missleading. Strace'ing a join showed that gethostbyname2_r exited with an error number indicating a bufferoverrun. Changing the buffersize to 1024 solved the Problem in this case. Yours respectfully Michael Stübiger -- | Dipl. Inf. Michael Stübiger Michael.Stuebiger at rz.ifi.lmu.de | | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen | | Institut fuer Informatik Zimmer Z 9 Tel: 2180-9137 |