Satish, Thanks for the information on your workaround of assigning a hostname for 127.0.0.1. However how does this impact running remote x sessions? That is if you discover the ip address that dhcp is assigning the machine can you still use 'ssh -A' to run a x window program remotely on the machine? Or does this workaround confuse that? Jack ps In particular on your machine can you do... xhost <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on> ssh -A <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on> xcalc ...and see the xcalc show up locally?