Hi everybody, I was having some disturbing ideas last week about doing loadbalancing without a distributing agent - the nodes take care of it themselves. It turns out you can do this with iptables and iproute2: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/autoloadbalance.php3 Please let me know what you think, and if it works for you. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Services Trilab The Technology People 'SYN! .. SYN|ACK! .. ACK!' - the mating call of the internet