Well, seems my DNS provider uses some kind of procedure which can be prone to failure. Anyway, my DNS stuff is now functional again- yay! My plan for today is now to move on to playing a bit more with reflection and attributes...this could get interesting! Oh, in case you're wondering, I'm playing with the Provider Pattern for a project I'm working on, also looking at doing some sort of low-maintainance security model for 'operational' security on method calls; so I can define that a particular method requires that my system provides the 'Edit' permission for that user / object before allowing the method call...probably going to involve extending the Provider Pattern to allow for permission attribute introspection as part of the provider...may be interesting