Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Do you have something strange in /etc/hosts? Thank you very much indeed. That was indeed the problem. I was playing with an ipv6 application some time ago, and I did not notice that it appended many lines to /etc/hosts (actually just on my server, but I later copied this /etc/hosts to my other machines without looking at it). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin