hi all, last night I shutdown all servers and work stations and rebooted just the win / exchange 2000 server in the event log it still tells me that the dns proxy will not bind the tcp/ip address in danger of repeating myself but I have no firewall no routers ( at the moment ) I have checked that the net settings are correct our systems were working perfectly as they were till a couple of days ago, I altered nothing, till the mail server crashed and since then nothing but trouble anyone suggest anything I can do to resolve this problem ? regards steve alcock