On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:27 am, Bob Chiodini wrote: > Claude, > > 127.0.0.1 is the IP address the lo device on all machines in your net. > This may be some kind of special case, but I think your DHCP server > should hand out the real LAN address of your DNS server, something like > 192.168.x.y. Why it worked up until recently I don't know. > > Bob... Thanks, Bob - and the other question which is why did it stop working only for some functions (mail, messenger), and on only two PC's out 5? That's why I worded my opening sentence the way I did - one other thing I've noticed this am, is that I'm getting slpd errors on shutdown - well, it just says it failed to shut it down - I had never heard of this daemon, but I read a little about it, and on cursory inspection, it seems like it 'could' be related -- need to keep looking - I just posted this in case anyone else was having the same issue, on the chance it could be related to recent updates... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA