On 18 Jun, this message from Chris Robson echoed through cyberspace: > > I still can't get to the www.thedirks,org site, seems some problem exists > between my parent DNS and the thedirks.org parent DNS Are you sure you're not running a 2.4 kernel with ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) turned on? Or Bill has it on on his server? This 'feature' has randomly prevented lots of people from accessing various sites.... Look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn to turn it off on a running system. Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@xxxxxx | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "