On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Albrecht Mueller wrote: > Continuously watching my /var/adm/messages file i see: > > Sep 2 08:18:27 news nntpcached[29342]: nntpcache.c:400: starting client task > Sep 2 08:18:27 news nntpcache-client[10826]: client task awakening > Sep 2 08:18:47 news nntpcache-client[10826]: <myPC> connect from <myPC> (myIPaddress) > > It is always the same: 20 seconds from "client task awakening" > to "connect". What are they used for? Yawning? :-) DNS lookups perhaps? Reverse DNS is incorrect at many sites, or it does not match the forward DNS. Tom