Earlier, I mentioned that I was working on a read-helper for ovdb (http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/inn-workers/2000/10/msg00252.html) This update is now available. It has been committed to -current, and should appear in the Nov 14 snapshot. Also, a patch for 2.3.x is available from my web page: http://www.avalon.net/~hakehoe/inn/ -heath