From: gerry77 at mail.com Also, name lookups can take time, and meanwhile the bridge is stopped. If someone have a seriously bad setup dns, this could means hanging the bridge for half a minute per such host (or more). It also increases the Honestly I think we have overlooked that issue and never really considered it, maybe because we never stumbled upon it. I wonder if it would be possible to specify a very short timeout for DNS lookups while performed by the bridge... ... or spin off a thread and do the lookup there (the Right Way :-). John Wilson D Bit