Hi, I've been noticing that metaserver2.us.netrek.org is down for some time now. telnet metaserver2.us.netrek.org 3521 Of course we have a backup at metaserver.us.netrek.org. telnet metaserver.us.netrek.org 3521 However, the generic hostname metaserver.netrek.org maps to the two ip addresses of the servers mentioned above. For some reason my DNS resolver *always* picks the first one and later tries the second. Result is that when I start netrek -m i have to wait ages. And in netrekXPmod latest version there is no status screen visible indicating something is happening, so that is quite confusing. I can imagine many newbies wondering if they doubleclicked the icon at all... So Carlos, or whoever operates metaserver2.us.netrek.org, can you restart the metaserver? And if not, Sven, can you remove the second entry in the DNS record? Greetx, Erik _______________________________________________ vanilla-devel mailing list vanilla-devel at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-devel