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 _________________________________________________________________ Win a $10,000 shopping spree from Hotmail! Enter now. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729711