> Honestly, I don't even need it, I was just using the machine name in 
> some debug statements for separating the machine in the web farm, I 
> just started printing the IP address instead, it doesn't leak, and 
> works just as well.  But thanks for the offer.
>
Is there a good reason why this value should not be cached on startUp?

Keith
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