what I mean is have a web host host the website/mail and have a third party host the dns nameserver?? I'm trying it with http://zoneedit.com the jury is still out anyone else know about this kinda thing? at first I wished I hadn't used zoneedit cause they don't have much of a newbie friendly help file... but one of my host's mail servers went down and I was able to re-route all the mail from one domain to a different host altogether... and I didn't have ask either of the sys admins to change anything! the downside (so far) is that if anything goes wrong the host says "its zonedit's fault" and if you ask zonedit what's wrong they say "...you'll have to ask your host" guess you can't have it both ways?? David Jr ============================================================= Avenir Web's Linux Discussion List List info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=13 To unsubscribe: email linux-discussion-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx =============================================================