Ever since I upgraded FC3->FC4 my laptop system is ignoring everything in my /etc/hosts file. It worked fine in FC3. My /etc/nsswitch file contains the line: hosts: files dns Anyone else seeing this problem??? -- Doc Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **