Unfortunately the good times didn't last - both big brother servers went red last night and started sending red & purple messages - it's a subtle and unpredictable bug; disabling ares got both big brother servers back on track. I have bbtest-net core dumps from both servers, if you are interested -

Joe

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I've compiled bbgen-3.5 with c-ares-1.2.1 (shipped with beta-6) and bbtest-net seems to be OK so far, running without a crash. However, as it took some time for the problem to occur with the previous version of the c-ares libs, I'll have to just monitor this and see how it goes...