Thanks a lot to everyone (Chris B., Eero L., Jeff K., ...) for the nslookup/3000 utility. I wrote a cmd file with this prog and now operators can use PING with names to control network objects in our campus. Bye. Stefano ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefano Bargioni - System Manager at Library System of Politecnico University Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino - Italy Voice +39 +11 5646714 Fax +39 +11 5646799 Internet e-mail: [log in to unmask] "Si apud bibliothecam hortulum habes, nihil deerit" (Cicero) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------