Jeanette Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the line is in there is there anything else? > Jeanette > Is are there /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny files? What text is in them? The next time your try to irc and are denied, take a look at /var/log/daemon.log and see if identd is either denying a host or giving other errors. -- -Mike Horansky, Unix Systems Support (http://uss.stanford.edu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Conformity is everything--isn't it?" OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS.