Hi, we're using iptables in a fairly primitive load-distribution setup - iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.3.200 -j DNAT --to 192.168.3.101-192.168.3.108 All traffic originates on the local machine. It's been working fine for quite a while, but today I noticed that only 7 of the 8 machines in the cluster are being distributed to - 101,102,104,105,106,107,108 but not 103. There isn't an awful lot of traffic, perhaps 2-3 msgs/min. Kernel is 2.4.24. I tried telnet'ing to 103 (port 10025) which worked fine - and following that 103 was suddenly also being distributed to automagically. Is there a way of determining why 103 was not being distributed to? Or when if this happens again, what can/should I look at? cheers /Per Jessen, Zurich