I have issued my last grep for the distinctive name that I set with the 'hostname' command and throw myself at the mercy of the *nix wizards. The name that I set is not stored in /etc/sysconfig/network, not stored in /etc/hosts, it just exists in the ether apparently. Now I find out that the hostname used by Allstar is stored in /etc/asterisk/system.conf (IIRC) which remained untouched, of course. I've just got to know now, even though it seems that things are sort of working OK after an initial hiccup. Thanks. Bote W4NUD <http://www.botecomm.com/bote/radio> http://www.botecomm.com/bote/radio – my hobby radio pages <http://www.trackstreamer.com/> http://www.trackstreamer.com – my streaming scanner feeds http://ialerts1.com – hobbyist alerting network w/maps