Have you checked your settings in nsswitch.conf? Believe that is suppose to specify the search order. There should be a hosts entry that lists files dns etc. as the desired order for checking host names. On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 04:49, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Don't know if this will help, but try here (called DNSMasq) and see if > > this does what you want.. > > Man , that looks like just the ticket... thanks. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>