Chad, You might want to add this pattern in the request to Alden (nport) or you will receive the NIDS. Also, you might want to add it to the allow on dusk for your local machines. "(^[A-RT-Z])|(^S[^D])|(SD..[0-8])|SD..(90|91|92|93|94|95|96|98|99)" Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================