This may seem dumb. I've looked everywhere, tried many different things, and I can't get it to work.. Is there anyway to stop linux from doing a reverse name lookup? I have a local caching bind system, and it's working for everything.. Here's my problem. While I'm at work I constantly check all my email from my server at home, but everytime Evolution (or anything) checks the mail my server at home does the reverse name lookup on my IP from work. My employer feels it neccessary to disable the reverse name lookup on our outbound IP here, so there is nothing I can do from work side. Only thing I can figure is disabling it on my machine. But after many hours of trying this and that, I can't figure it out.. Even when I added my work IP to my servers hosts file it did nothing.. ...help... I also tried the compressed ssh tunnell, which worked great becaue then everything was secure, but it was still slow, and caused Evolution to freak out a lot.. Since I have almost 2000 emails just from the plug on my imap, evo was going nuts.. But if I don't use the compressed tunnell, it works much better. -- "Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, as he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with rent...I'll drink instead!"