>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Chen via RT writes: Jonathan> Also, please note RT Ticket# 2902 that resolves crashes on Jonathan> res_ninit(). I'm not sure the supplied patch for ticket #2902 is correct, as res_ninit() is not going to be re-entrant if _res gets used, at least on some platforms. It would probably be more correct to simply treat AIX 5+ as not having a working res_ninit(). ---Tom