Tony, Flakiness seems to have gone down a wee bit once I replaced /usr/sbin/dnetnml with a binary built from dnet-progs source. It is staying up and responding to SHOW EXEC CHAR requests for almost a full day now. So far I have replaced two binaries in /usr/sbin with built-from-src - dnetnml and ctermd. BTW I tried to reach MASTER but it was down. My two nodes are at 1.553 and 1.554. Would you like an account? And could I have an account on MASTER? Thanks Supratim