The following is the portion of resolv.conf dealing with the DNServers for mysetup. They work just fine but don't point to the servers for my current ISP. I haven't used this ISP for dial up in 6 months. The question is why do they work and equally importanly when I change them to the DNServers of the current ISP why can I no longer collect mail or surf the web. I just get a message to the effect of loading web page but it never loads, never tells me it can't find it either. It seems to make no difference at all what numbers are in this file as far as sending mail is concerned I have just sent 3 mails with 3 different set of DNS numbers none of them my ISP with no problems at all. Very weird any ideas? search localdomain nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.48 -- Regards Richard http://www.tollyboy.com