[elmy]

Thanks, that sure was a valuable hint! Back in the days i was using a setup with fixed ip addresses and an internal dns server. Now, I just plugged the Octane into the DCHP network and it keeps complaining about not receiving answers until the lease almost times out. I'll start with setting up a static subnet again.

Is there any preference of TCP over UDP on IRIX? You mention the bug kicks in if a connection is interrupted, wich couldn't occur with UDP. netstat didn't show any tcp connections.