On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 23:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > I went and got the FC6 versions of bind and it seems to have > quieted down a LOT! > > bind-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-libs-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-chroot-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-sdb-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-devel-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-utils-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > bind-libbind-devel-9.3.2-41.fc6.i386.rpm > > plus network-bind-config and anything I could grab. You know that bind doesn't have anything to do with re-writing your hosts file? Bind just looks after itself, it's some other auto-configuring part of your network messing with the hosts file, and perhaps with the /etc/resolv.conf file at the same time. > [root@iam Desktop]# more /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost iam.wayward4now.net > > I hope this is just left over from before... it's BAAACK! <kill me > now> What are you using to go on and offline? Does it go online while the PC is booting, are you using some utility? And what are in the same script files that David asked you about? -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.