>Has anyone else suddenly gotten inundated with "unable to contact host >for 7 days" for such places as >delphi.com >vm.tcs.tulane.edu >vms.cis.pitt.edu These hosts (except the last which is MXed) are <NOW> PINGable. My guess is that either some router (or its configuration) was "down" or you had an off-campus circuit problem. If you are using IBM's TCPIP on a VM system, you might try the command: SMSG SMTP QU (you may get a lot of output). >plus a lot of others? /Pete