This patch allows IPs to be resolved asynchronously. In other words, the MUD will never lag just because the nameserver does (as any veteran CircleMUD administrator has suffered through). This patch has been create against a fresh CircleMUD 3.0 bpl 17 installation. Issue this command to patch it correctly: patch -p0 < asynchdns.patch Read through the comments in the patch file for some info on how you can make DNS cache as well, and for some info about how it operates. If anyone has any suggestions, comments, or flames, please send them to: dc@moonflare.com -Derrick Coetzee P.S. If anyone wonders at the peculiar format of the comments in lookup.c, they're Doxygen-style comments.