Hello, I have following problem: In order to run a special application without crashes - DNS lookups must be disabled for that program as someone found out! The same good fellow sent me a description for doing this under FreeBSD! Does anyone know how what I have to do under LINUX (RedHat 6.2) in order to get the same result??? I use Blackdown JAVA and IBM Java and I was told that the way must be similar but that also /etc/nsswitch.conf hast to be modified! Can anyone tell me what I have to do in a RedHat Linux 6.2 (Blackdown Java/ IBM Java) environment???? Thank you very much for your help!!! Volker ================================= Here the description for FreeBSD: Created patched libc.so to replace /etc/host.conf with /etc/hostJconf without DNS lookups. Inserted LD_LIBRARY_PATH in startup script to point on custom libc.so. * found real binary Java executable /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/i386/green_threads/java * ldd on it: $ ldd /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/i386/green_threads/java /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/i386/green_threads/java: libjava.so => not found (0x0) libxpg4.so.2 => /usr/lib/compat/libxpg4.so.2 (0x28064000) libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x28068000) libc.so.3 => /usr/lib/compat/libc.so.3 (0x28083000) * DNS resolver in libc.so * Java is linked against FreeBSD-3.x compatibility library * here is JDK version: $ /usr/local/jdk1.1.8/bin/java -fullversion java full version "jdk1.1.8-FreeBSD:1999/11/9" * DNS resolver configured in /etc/host.conf * I need to disable DNS lookups for JDK/DigiChat only * binary patching $ mkdir /usr/local/Application/libc $ cp /usr/lib/compat/libc.so.3 /usr/local/Application/libc $ cd /usr/local/Application/libc $ perl -pi.bak -e 's{/etc/host\.conf}{/etc/hostJconf}g;' libc.so.3 $ cd /etc $ echo hosts > hostJconf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]