Hi Eric, Sorry about that, my mistake. This output was not the same as yours. AF_INET family integer is: 2 AF_INET6 family integer is: 10 family for result was 10 hostname: localhost family for result was 10 hostname: localhost family for result was 10 hostname: localhost Thanks! Alexis Cheng Electrical Engineering University of British Columbia Hi Eric, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and I believe I am using the newest version of boxturtle. The output from the attached code is the same as yours. Thanks! Alexis Cheng Electrical Engineering University of British Columbia Whoops.. forgot to attach the code (modified example from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getaddrinfo). Also, this produces: AF_INET family integer is: 2 AF_INET6 family integer is: 10 family for result was 2 hostname: localhost family for result was 2 hostname: localhost family for result was 2 hostname: localhost family for result was 2 hostname: localhost family for result was 2 hostname: localhost family for result was 2 hostname: localhost on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine. - Eric _________________________________________________________________ 30 days of prizes: Hotmail makes your day easier! Enter Now. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729710