Are you serious? DNS could be causing this? That strikes me as a bit farfeched. Sorry if that sounded rude, I'm just a little...incredulous :) Really though, how could that be the issue? Could you explain how you resolved it? I don't think that's the problem in my case, as my cacheing DNS box hasn't been altered, only my desktop.... > > > I have run into this problem on my laptop. In my case I believe it was > incorrectly configured name servers causing name look-up timeouts. >