I've been working on this for several days and can't seem to figure out what's wrong. When I try to compile perl-5.14.2 or install any perl module that runs a test requiring getaddrinfo, the test fails. I've searched high and low between the bug list, the wiki, google, man pages etc and have found zero answers. I've found example c code that fails also. All the return values are negative and should be 0 or greater than zero. One of the errors related to perl is # Failed test '$err == 0 for host= cpan.perl.org/service=ftp/socktype=STREAM' # at t/getaddrinfo.t line 79. # got: -8 # expected: 0 I have a static ip address set up in rc.conf and my internet connections work, ftp clients work, ip addrlabel produces prefix ::1/128 label 0 prefix ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 label 4 prefix ::/96 label 3 prefix 2001::/32 label 7 prefix 2002::/16 label 2 prefix fec0::/10 label 5 prefix fc00::/7 label 6 prefix ::/0 label 1 and rpcbind, ypbind, ypserv, and vsftpd are running. Building python3 also fails with the same error. It's probably something misconfigured on my box with all the changes in network tools, but quite frankly I'm lost. This problem is recent. I built the previous versions of perl and python3. Python2 builds and I diffed the test files that contain the gettaddrinfo tests and they are different. Pointers to getaddrinfo code that works, suggestions on my network configuration, rtfm might work if you've got a man page I've missed, and/or any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!