Tim: >> I suppose there's a few things that could be throwing a spanner in the >> works (SELinux, DNS resolution, network routing). Bob Goodwin: > Selinux is off, I have used numerical addresses, network routing? Thinking of a different sort of error, that may be a red herring. But routing being important for networking when you have more than one interface (i.e. which one does what traffic go through in which circumstances). >> Something that I've seen mentioned regarding other problems, at least, >> is NTP running more than once. I don't know how or why that happens, >> but I've seen it happen here, and odd things happen because of it > Ed Greshko asked - > service ntpd status > ntpd (pid 18799) is running... > > I forgot to provide that in the last message. Check the process IDs for yourself (e.g. use "top", or something else). I don't recall the "service ntpd status" message showing NTP running more than once for me, but it was. Nor do I know why. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.