Hi Tony, If you use perl4 and change the SOCK_STREAM variable to 2 instead of 1 it should work. This value is used and hardcoded more then once in the code. In the next distribution this will be handled from the Makefile but that doesn't help you now ... Kind regards, David Kessens RIPE NCC Database maintainer -------- tonyb <tonyb@pipex.net> writes: * Hi, has anyone managed to tweak the perl whois server to run under * Solaris ? Is it an easy fix ? * * Thanks * * * ____ * / \/ * /<>/\// * Tony Barber Phone : +44(0)1223 250122 * Technical Support Email : support@pipex.net * * *