Thanks for your reply. >the error message you refer to in your subject is normally encountered >when using MASQUERADE in conjunction with policy routing, which normally >implies multiple ISP connections. Just one connection. >i cannot find information referencing any of the above in the details of >your post; which could be a possible explanation for the silence. Might it be some sort of conflict between my immediate ISP (Comcast) assigning a my firewall a domain name via DHCP and my using my "real" domain name on the inside? Again, however, this problem didn't happen with RHEL 3. I've also noted that if I run a traceroute to my main domain and let it finish--it may take a minute or two, but it eventually connects--other connections then work. Immediate workaround is to insert the traceroute into my fetchmail cron job. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ |