>>>Thanks for all the advice, everyone.
>>>
>>>Ed, I picked up the suggestion of trying to connect with a known IP address from the West Wind site, and thought I might use the GetIPFromDomain() function. It gave the correct answer (from cached data?) after I went off line in the middle of an email session. It may work for testing when I start sending, though. I'll check the earlier thread for more info.
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>>Here's what I do . . .
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>>set classlib to wwipstuff addi
>>o = create('wwipstuff')
>>lcip=''
>>* check to see if you can access the web server
>>lcip= o.GetIpFromDomain("www.Yourdomain.com")
>>if len(lcip)<12
>> messagebox('Not Connected to the Internet'+crlf+' or the Web Server is experiencing problems. . . Check Connection!')
>> return
>>endif
>>
>>Works like a charm for me.
>
>This looks good, but before I adapt it, I would like to be confident that there are no circumstances where an OS or a router would cache a DNS listing... seems like a good candidate for a network timesaver (in a bad way) to me...

Actually, I haven't run this code on the server. I use it in client pcs that are doing ftp uploads and it hasn't failed yet(I know I shouldn't have said that!)< G > I guess you could always run a nbtstat -R to clear that cache, then run the above code.