Most of the irc servers try to resolve the client identd. Some of them do not even allow a connection. How can I fix this problem? Where is identd invoked from? Are there any security issues with it? Thank you in advance. Subba Rao subb3 at ibm.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ ************ techtalk at linuxchix.org http://www.linuxchix.org