Sorry if this is OT but my thinking is that if you don't know, then it's going to be a hard job finding one that does. For my broadband I have a boring old iHug - now Voda - ADSL connection. A lot of my work involves monitoring and managing remote websites. (Probably) since the new government legislation came into effect, my guess is that I am now behind a transparent proxy for web traffic. Now, I'm not *too* bothered by that ( well, except when it falls to pieces like one evening last week! ), but in final testing I often override DNS with a local host entry. This no longer works, and my SP sends me to the production one every time. This is a major problem. Does anyone know... a) whether this can be disabled? b) whether there is another provider out there who doesn't do this? I've got plenty of servers worldwide that I can route all my traffic through in an encrypted manner which would almost certainly circumvent this, but I shudder to think what can of worms that would open! Any suggestions?? Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <steve(a)greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: steve(a)greengecko.co.nz Skype: sholdowa