Chris, I'd be happy to live with a certain delay in name resolutions rather than having to maintain a static name server database myself. Agreed, IMHO the pipeline would be much more practical if it would serve coffee as well. But it is a router, not a server. How will you fill up the local DNS then? You could type in all names that you know you'll be using. Then there are trillions that you don't know yet. AFAIK there is no "DNS cache" or self-learning DNS at the moment that would put any resolved name into a list. Even if your local list has stabilized after some time how do you cope with IP address changes? How do you notice? For proper updates you'd have to receive zone list updates from your provider regularily. Which he's not likely to do. Best regards, Wolfgang ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/