Hello, we wanted to open connections from within zope to other elements. As the other elements require that we connect to them via a socks server, we considered it a good idea to wrap zope with socksify. socksify is a program from the dante package which allows you to add socks support for any network application by just wrapping the application with socksify. It is just like using strace on linux. Now we got the problem that zope randomly crashed. We suspected that the socksify version we used was faulty and tried it with the latest socksify version as a static compiled binary, but had similar problems. Did somebody else try to wrap zope with socksify and had success with it? I found only this hint that application developers should take care of: *select(2)/poll(2)*applications combining non-blocking sockets with select(2)/poll(2) need to make sure they can handle the select(2)/poll(2) call being interrupted. This is due to how the Dante clientlibrary implements support for non-blocking connect(2).But our application crashed randomly, and not when we tried to access certain ftp servers. Best regards, Patrick Gerken