On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Steve White wrote: > For the record, here's the solution. > > yum install nss-mdns Hmm. yum reports "No package nss-mdns available." for both my 32 and 64bit machines. Where does your nss-mdns package come from ? Your nettest.java sample runs on my 32bit machines without nss-mdns which makes me wonder whether that is the solution ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna