Olav Mørkrid wrote: > the source of the problem is gethostbyaddr(). it seems to have a 4,5 > second timeout, so some lookups time out after 4,5 seconds, while most > of them are resolved in < 0.1 second; a radically performance > difference. You can change the timeout be amending the options statement in /etc/resolv.conf: options timeout: 2 (2 seconds). See 'man resolv.conf'. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php