> I'm pretty sure that's right -- I noticed that name lookups were taking > forever, so I redefined my client's primary DNS address to the library's, > and I got the same response, so I tried pinging some IP addresses I know > that lie outside Miami, and got a *lot* of packet lossage. Kent told me > that the pager on MIAVX1 was filled this morning with pages going to folks > in Networking, complaining that our OARNet connection had gone down. > > Clayton I dunno what happened, but since yesterday the backbone of the net has been experiencing packet loss rates as high as 40%. Ouch. Regards, Bob -- Robert E. Williams Macintosh Developer Enterprise Software [log in to unmask] http://www.muohio.edu/~williar2/