This was fixed in April with revision 1.12 of nsdispatch.c. A patch relative to FreeBSD 5.2.1 is available at: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/lib/libc/net/nsdispatch.c.diff? r1=1.8&r2=1.12 . Cheers, -- Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org