Hi, Thank you for your reply.

I have looked at the link it seems too complecated, all i need is a little program of about 200 lines and out puts the results from 20 random queries, (i am only using query and queryhit, not ping or pong) on ttl3 and 4.

I think the basic idea would be to open a connection to each of the nodes (whether you just pick a random set of nodes or otherwise), send the query to each, then reading data back over the same connections.. once you get a result you just parse out whatever information you need from the response and write to a file...

I know that i have to declare things like query, queryhit, ttl3, ttl4, read in files, etc

I just dont know how to start it, to be honest... So any help would be appriciated.