For the sake of "completeness", I put up the following....... As an experiment I issued the command "pdnsd-ctl empty-cache", this clears pdnsd's cache and resets any local rules. interestingly this cured the problem. It also sped up the internet access a good bit. I believe given what has happened that this would be worth while to do say on a yearly basis. When I first installed pdnsd, I remember the time reduction accessing almost all web pages was very much reduced. I felt over time that this reduction appeared to largly dissapear. I asssumed it did not have as much effect on the 3g broadband, this assumption does not appear to be correct. It seems the longer pdnsd runs the more bogged down it gets, or possibly the more rubbish entries ends up in the cache. It's nice to know my initial diagnosis of a name server problem was correct. Lindsay