Tom I appreciate your time. This server does NOT serve as my INTERNAL DNS server. It is an advertiser ONLY. Not used for resolving. It it only there to advertise the DNS zones for my domains. This is what is so puzzling, why does turning on a OPEN ALL PROTOCOLS make it work? Yet, not required on my win2k box. Perplexing, but of course it doesn't take much to perplex me. Thanks -John