Well 16M is less than a second's worth of traffic these days. You may want to tune -U #listeners down from the default and/or the number if cpus (-n) which reduces -U. That said the ability to set this size at runtime would be useful. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org