Well thanks for the replies all of you, I'm currently leaving the test machine on 24/7 that I'm learning on at the moment until my Win2k FTP+mail+DNS pc is dragged out of the loft and given the FC3 treatment. So it should get quicker at doing the resolving stuff but we'll see. Re named.conf, My ISP's 2 DNS servers are 217.169.20.20 and .21 so can someone type it out how it should look so I don't stuff it up when I edit it? Thanks. Barry <now go's to explore his work pc to find named.conf> -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=64022&topic_id=15902&forum=4#forumpost64022