A significant update to this ticket is that Perl is not the only package doing this to me now. It seems that cvs (v1.11.13) is also crashing with a core dump upon calling getservbyname. I'm not sure what is wrong with my system but it doesn't seem to be an issue with Perl itself. I would still appreciate any insight you may have on the matter, though. -------------------------------- Stu Hicks ehicks@binarymagi.com