> isnt /userip nick the same as doing /dns nick ?/
Not necessarily; certainly the implementation is completely different. With /userip, the server is queried for the user's IP address, which it obtained when the user connected to the server. With /dns, the *client* performs a DNS look-up on the user's hostname as reported by the server. If the A records have changed between when the user connected to the network and you do a /dns or /userip, the answers will differ. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>