Dear all, When I try to use Inetaddress.getLocalHost() in freeBSD 5.4 with ntive jdk1.4 i get the unknownhost exception. It works only when i set my hostname to 'localhost'. the code doesn't work with any other hostname. Thanks, Prithula Dhungel. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.