Hi, I've found this problem on a suse 8.0 machine: if I try to ping a machine by its name the program stay locked (no messages, neither errors). If I ping with the IP address everything works. A problem of DNS? I thought this, but other users on the same machine can ping by a DNS name. I'm talking, of course, of non privileged users. Any idea? Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Il pensiero del giorno e': Si scelgano degli identificatori mnemonici. Se non ci si ricorda cosa vuol dire "mnemonico", è un bel problema. (Larry Wall) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html