Hi Steve, All, Correction- On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Steve Rieger wrote: > i do believe that mac ignores the /etc/hosts, > they use lookupd, and netinfo, mac scans /etc/hosts upon startup and > then ignores it. No- MacOSX does indeed use /etc/hosts, as well as the lookupd and netinfo infrastructure. Best, .ike