Matz, I am running into a problem where it takes about 10 seconds for Ruby to make a connection using TCPSocket. I've looked into this, and found that it is making a call to getaddrinfo(), and encountering a long delay because of an address that fails to resolve. Turning off reverse lookup has no effect, because it isn't a reverse lookup, it is a forward lookup. Any suggestions on how to work around this? -- Seth Kurtzberg M. I. S. Corp. 480-661-1849 seth / cql.com