William Hooper wrote: > "coady.fish" is not the same as "www.fish.coady". Is this a typo in > the mail, or did you accidently put two different things in the > config file? It was a typo, sorry, and well spotted! > The *client* has this in /etc/hosts? Oops, no it didn't! I have fixed that now and it is now working perfectly. I am starting to understand this a bit better now. Thanks very much for all your help and apologies for any slowness on my side. > Also, does the client's > /etc/host.conf have hosts first (ie. "order hosts,bind")? No, I don't think so. The client is not linux anyway, but will be quite soon as RH9 seems as good at this as it is a server.