> Try running `strace' on alien to see where it is hanging. [root@christina szumlins]# ps -C alien PID TTY TIME CMD 1166 pts/1 00:00:00 alien [root@christina szumlins]# strace -p 1166 read(3, Thats all I get...maybe I'm doing something wrong, but that doesn't mean anything to me. As far as the DNS stuff goes, I just switched over to what Marcel suggested and figured I'd try it out. -Mike