Traceroute may tell you why you can't get there from here, or wherever, and how you don;t get there. > I want to say it was DNS propagation issues, but when I looked into it > yesterday, the URL www.findchips.com got me to the new site, but the IP t= hat > the URL resolved to (via ping and whois tools), got me the old one. Tracerouting access to a database that my wife uses from home was interesting. The company is in Mairangi Bay - about ?15? crow-flies miles from here. The route took me to somewhere in the US. The company has offices in many countries and head office is in The Netherlands but I hadn't realised that the server that she uses wasn't local. Russell --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .