Well it looks like ns1.healthalliance.co.nz is down. dig www.healthalliance.co.nz @210.54.1.142 works dig www.healthalliance.co.nz @210.54.1.143 fails. given the the reverse DNS for 210.54.1.143 and 210.54.1.142 is also on those servers, you're going to get timeouts galore. ns1.healthalliance.co.nz. 86400 IN A 210.54.1.143 ns2.healthalliance.co.nz. 86400 IN A 210.54.1.142 jfp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-Francois Pirus <jfp(a)clearfield.com> Senior Software Engineer Phone (+64-9) 358 2081 Clearfield Software Ltd Fax (+64-9) 358 2083 4th Floor 8-10 Whitaker Place Mob (+64-21) 640 779 P O Box 3901 Auckland, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------