Connection issues to IDS 9.3/9.4 on W2K

Afternoon all IDS 9.30 & 9.40 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Dell PowerEdge 2640 with 2 x Xeon 2.8Ghz processors multithreaded to 4 virtual processors (i.e. should be REALLY fast) Has anyone else experienced any latency issues (anywhere between 2-4 seconds) when performing dbaccess connections or simply performing onstat commands?? I have the same engine versions on a Windows 2000 Professional PC and do NOT experience ANY latency issues (i.e. almost instant response to ANY onstat command and straight in using dbaccess) I've attempted to put the machine name and IP address in the %SystemRoot%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts directory but this doesn't appear to resolve the issue. I do remember something about Microsoft having a patch for NT on gethostbyname() procedure as this used to cause the same issue that I'm experiencing, but can't find anything useful on Microsoft's site re: W2K. Has anybody else experienced the same things? and if so, how did you get around (or resolve) them? As always, your help is very much appreciated. S. P.S. We also have an issue in not being able to get more than 25% utilisation of oninit.exe on all 4 multithreaded processors, no matter what we throw at it, but thats another issue... :o)