There's something I don't understand. I had done a PUT PEERS NAMES (on the backbone servers as usual) to remove EB0UB011 from the backbone as per Jose Maria's request, and it first went very well. Then I started to get acks from servers which are NOT on the backbone, and then acks from servers which had ALREADY acked the PUT. That just DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Just got an ACK from my *own darned* server by the way. This means that one of the servers has violated the PUT protocol and redistributed the stuff to all the servers that IT knew (ie all the servers in its PEERS NAMES), instead of recognizing that it was a forwarded PUT and keeping its mouth shut. The only server that I added to the backbone since the last PUT was the RICE one. Richard, can you check your server's console log to see if it's the culprit or not? If it is, please shut it down asap. I don't mean to imply that it's necessarily RICE, but it's a possibility. It could also be POLYGRAF although I think it was in the last PEERS NAMES (but I'm not certain). Eric