Bitnet works "good." SMTP port seems available BUT TELNET (port 23) took a long time TRACERTE seems to indicate that some hops are dropping and/or taking a little long No MX hosts involved and all 5 authoritative DNS seem consistent wrt A record info. SMTP mail to: [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] went on retry q (after have successfully resolved). SMTP delivered after first retry interval (but no response to my e-mail). My guess is that there is alot of dropped packets causing TELNET/ SMTP to either timeout or drop connections. -- co-owner: INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L URL:mailto:[log in to unmask] "Never confuse the messenger with the message"