I've put my take on an API for asynchronous (host)name lookup up at http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/asynchnl.pdf Comments to me, please. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------