On Tue, 25 May 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Can I assume that $RelayAddr will always be in the format 127.0.0.1 and > never 127.000.000.001? Probably. It's whatever inet_ntop or inet_ntoa in your C library returns, and I don't know of any UNIX platforms whose libraries include unnecessary leading zeros. Regards, David.