Hi Andrew! On 3.11.10, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > 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 ? > Right. It came from epel > Your nettest.java sample runs on my 32bit machines without nss-mdns > which makes me wonder whether that is the solution ? > I'm sure it would run on a 32bit machine. That isn't where the problem occurs. I think the problem occurs on an AMD x86_64 architecture (sorry I should have repeated that in the summary.) My specific case is AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 Cheers! -- | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Steve White +49(331)7499-202 | E-Science Zi. 27 Villa Turbulenz | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) | An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam | | Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Peter A. Stolz | | Stiftung privaten Rechts, Stiftungsverzeichnis Brandenburg: III/7-71-026 | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -