Hrvoje> If I start XEmacs while not connected to the network and Hrvoje> then connect, XEmacs cannot connect to any host -- it Hrvoje> fails with "temporary failure in name resolution". On the Hrvoje> other hand, if I start it while connected, everything Hrvoje> works fine, even if I then disconnect and connect again. This sounds similar to some bogosity reported on the Coda mailing list. Something's either busted in RH's nscd or there's some nitpicky detail in the spec that never mattered on any previous implementation, and yes, it's RH 9-specific. I'll look it up (will take a few days) and report back, or you can check yourself at http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/. Some people report that explicitly starting the ncsd by hand or at boot time helps, others say it makes no difference. Hrvoje> The error message sounds like it's a DNS problem, but I Hrvoje> don't know what's causing it. Mozilla doesn't seem to Hrvoje> have this problem. Do you know how much effort netscape.com put into robust and fast DNS performance over the years? :-/ -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.