Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> If I really want to know what is different between two boxes, I'll do >> something like NFS mount one into the other or rsync their /etc trees >> somewhere on a common host and let diff -r walk through them. > > > As indicated above, I already know the difference between the two boxes. I find that a little hard to believe, since they behave differently and you seem not to understand why. >> Are you sure this isn't as simple as having (and using, check your >> resolv.conf) a caching name server running on one box so most lookups >> are resolved locally while the other is making the query to something >> slow? > > resolve.config is the same on the two boxes. Assuming you mean resolv.conf, is the the first choice one of the boxes in question? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com