Hmm, that does the trick (thought I'd already tried specifying hostname). Brings startup down to 15 seconds. Apparently my dns server is incorrectly configured (specifying it didn't help, I had to specify the hostname explicitly). :) Thanks. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Petru Paler [mailto:ppetru@coltronix.com] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:33 PM To: Mike Fletcher Cc: zope Subject: Re: [Zope] Slow Startup, error message: PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing defa ult hostname ult hostname ZServer tries to do a reverse lookup and you have a problem with your nameserver config. This should go away if you specify the hostname and/or fix the nameserver settings (or make sure it's reachable). ...