That's interesting. I tried that exact telnet test, but couldn't get a response. I must have mistyped something.
As for the davecubed stuff, Verio's being a dog at getting my name out of their DNS. I requested it to be done last Thursday, but they didn't get it right. They're trying to bill me for supporting a domain name. Isn't that crazy?
However, all my tests are directly to the IP address, (e.g. 216.167.114.244/index.html). Since the request does log in the AOL access log, I figured that the Linux box got the request to the right process. That's why I concluded that Linux and the DNS aren't the problem (even though I could ring Verio's necks for not getting something so simple right.)
I guess a more productive question might be what exactly does the tcl command "set address [ns_info address]" mean?
And, please know Roberto, that I'm terribly grateful to you for looking into that. In reading my response, I'm afraid that the tone is a bit brusk. I'm actually elated that you would take a few minutes to look into this problem.
David Richards