Verify that the cost of your routing group connectors are all equal values. Evidently the cost settings currently vary. -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld -----Original Message----- From: ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: [ExchangeList] <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue Dec 27 19:56:40 2005 Subject: Routing takes extra hop In one of my sites sending from server 1 to server 2 is taking an extra hop over server 3. Same site. If you look in the header if a user in server1 sends to server 2, it shows server1 sent to server 3 to sever 2. Server 3 is 2003 the others are 2000.