Hi all, This is under Gentoo Linux (2.4.20) Pentium 4, could someone give me a clue as to why this happens: Eshell V5.3 (abort with ^G) 1> inet:gethostbyname("wintermute"). {error,nxdomain} 2> inet_res:gethostbyname("wintermute"). {ok,{hostent,"wintermute.csis.ul.ie",[],inet,4,[{136,201,24,71}]}} 3> halt(). cheers, --david.