diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index ebdbf7b..f7792bb 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 
+0.19.0 / 2016-07-22
+===================
+
+  * alias: handle `ESERVFAIL` [@rauchg]
+  * add cmd line flag to forward NPM auth token [@rase-]
+  * make a binary of `now` using enclosejs [@igorklopov]
+  * bunch of misc improvements to build process [@leo]
+
 0.18.1 / 2016-06-23
 ===================
 
diff --git a/bin/now b/bin/now
index e723245..f160437 100755
--- a/bin/now
+++ b/bin/now
@@ -39,7 +39,12 @@ if (commands.has(cmd)) {
   args = args.concat(process.argv.slice(2));
 }
 
-const bin = resolve(__dirname, 'now-' + cmd);
+let bin = resolve(__dirname, 'now-' + cmd);
+if (process.enclose) {
+  args.unshift("--entrypoint", bin);
+  bin = process.execPath;
+}
+
 const proc = spawn(bin, args, { stdio: 'inherit', customFds: [0, 1, 2] });
 proc.on('close', (code) => exit(code));
 proc.on('error', () => exit(1));
diff --git a/bin/now-deploy b/bin/now-deploy
index 9b63ed5..70168fc 100755
--- a/bin/now-deploy
+++ b/bin/now-deploy
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import ms from 'ms';
 import { handleError, error } from '../lib/error';
 
 const argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
-  boolean: ['help', 'version', 'debug', 'force', 'login', 'no-clipboard'],
+  boolean: ['help', 'version', 'debug', 'force', 'login', 'no-clipboard', 'forward-npm'],
   alias: {
     help: 'h',
     debug: 'd',
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ const argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
     force: 'f',
     forceSync: 'F',
     login: 'L',
-    'no-clipboard': 'C'
+    'no-clipboard': 'C',
+    'forward-npm': 'N'
   }
 });
 
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ const help = () => {
     -f, --force         force a new deployment even if nothing has changed
     -L, --login         configure login
     -C, --no-clipboard  do not attempt to copy URL to clipboard
+    -N, --forward-npm   Forward login information to install private NPM modules
 
   ${chalk.dim('Examples:')}
 
@@ -93,7 +95,8 @@ const exit = (code) => {
 // options
 const debug = argv.debug;
 const clipboard = !argv['no-clipboard'];
-const force = argv.force;
+const forwardNpm = argv['forward-npm'];
+const forceNew = argv.force;
 const forceSync = argv.forceSync;
 const shouldLogin = argv.login;
 const apiUrl = argv.url || 'https://api.zeit.co';
@@ -141,8 +144,9 @@ async function sync (token) {
 
   try {
     await now.create(path, {
-      forceNew: force,
-      forceSync: forceSync,
+      forceNew,
+      forceSync,
+      forwardNpm,
       quiet: !isTTY
     });
   } catch (err) {
diff --git a/enclose.js b/enclose.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13bfb8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/enclose.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module.exports = {
+  scripts: [
+    "build/bin/now-*"
+  ]
+};
diff --git a/gulpfile.babel.js b/gulpfile.babel.js
index d39cb28..bb3e7f8 100644
--- a/gulpfile.babel.js
+++ b/gulpfile.babel.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import del from 'del';
 import babel from 'gulp-babel';
 import uglify from 'gulp-uglify';
 import help from 'gulp-task-listing';
+import { exec as enclose } from 'enclose';
 
 gulp.task('help', help);
 
@@ -23,6 +24,14 @@ gulp.task('compile-bin', () =>
   .pipe(uglify())
   .pipe(gulp.dest('build/bin')));
 
+gulp.task('enclose', ['compile'], (cb) => {
+  enclose([
+    'build/bin/now',
+    '-c', 'enclose.js',
+    '-o', 'build/now'
+  ], cb);
+});
+
 gulp.task('watch-lib', () => gulp.watch('lib/*.js', ['compile-lib']));
 gulp.task('watch-bin', () => gulp.watch('bin/*', ['compile-bin']));
 gulp.task('clean', () => del(['build']));
diff --git a/lib/alias.js b/lib/alias.js
index c58bdf9..cedfdc1 100644
--- a/lib/alias.js
+++ b/lib/alias.js
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ export default class Alias extends Now {
       try {
         ips = await resolve4(domain);
       } catch (err) {
-        if ('ENODATA' === err.code || 'ENOTFOUND' === err.code) {
+        if ('ENODATA' === err.code || 'ESERVFAIL' === err.code || 'ENOTFOUND' === err.code) {
           // not errors per se, just absence of records
           if (this._debug) console.log(`> [debug] No records found for "${domain}"`);
         } else {
diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index 3131409..071d93a 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import retry from 'async-retry';
 import Agent from './agent';
 import EventEmitter from 'events';
 import { basename, resolve as resolvePath } from 'path';
+import { homedir } from 'os';
+import { parse as parseIni } from 'ini';
 import { stat, readFile } from 'fs-promise';
 import resumer from 'resumer';
 import splitArray from 'split-array';
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ export default class Now extends EventEmitter {
     this._onRetry = this._onRetry.bind(this);
   }
 
-  async create (path, { forceNew, forceSync, quiet = false }) {
+  async create (path, { forceNew, forceSync, forwardNpm, quiet = false }) {
     this._path = path;
 
     try {
@@ -61,6 +63,33 @@ export default class Now extends EventEmitter {
       throw e;
     }
 
+    const nowProperties = pkg.now || {};
+
+    forwardNpm = forwardNpm || nowProperties['forward-npm'];
+
+    // Read .npmrc
+    let npmrc = {};
+    let authToken;
+    if (forwardNpm) {
+      try {
+        npmrc = await readFile(resolvePath(path, '.npmrc'), 'utf8');
+        npmrc = parseIni(npmrc);
+        authToken = npmrc['//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken'];
+      } catch (err) {
+        // Do nothing
+      }
+
+      if (!authToken) {
+        try {
+          npmrc = await readFile(resolvePath(homedir(), '.npmrc'), 'utf8');
+          npmrc = parseIni(npmrc);
+          authToken = npmrc['//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken'];
+        } catch (err) {
+          // Do nothing
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     if (this._debug) console.time('> [debug] Getting files');
     const files = await getFiles(path, pkg, { debug: this._debug });
     if (this._debug) console.timeEnd('> [debug] Getting files');
@@ -71,7 +100,6 @@ export default class Now extends EventEmitter {
 
     this._files = hashes;
 
-    const nowProperties = pkg.now || {};
     const engines = nowProperties.engines || pkg.engines;
 
     const deployment = await this.retry(async (bail) => {
@@ -83,6 +111,7 @@ export default class Now extends EventEmitter {
           forceSync,
           name: pkg.name || basename(path),
           description: pkg.description,
+          registryAuthToken: authToken,
           // Flatten the array to contain files to sync where each nested input
           // array has a group of files with the same sha but different path
           files: Array.prototype.concat.apply([], Array.from(this._files).map(([sha, { data, names }]) => {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 179073f..0e2e281 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "now",
-  "version": "0.18.1",
+  "version": "0.19.0",
   "description": "realtime instant node.js deployment with one command",
   "readme": "",
   "main": "./build/lib/index",
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     "email-validator": "1.0.4",
     "fs-promise": "0.5.0",
     "graceful-fs": "4.1.4",
+    "ini": "1.3.4",
     "minimatch": "3.0.0",
     "minimist": "1.2.0",
     "ms": "0.7.1",
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@
     "babel-preset-es2015": "6.9.0",
     "babel-register": "6.9.0",
     "del": "2.2.0",
+    "enclose": "2.1.0",
     "eslint": "2.12.0",
     "eslint-config-standard": "5.3.1",
     "eslint-plugin-promise": "1.3.2",
@@ -97,7 +99,8 @@
   "scripts": {
     "start": "gulp",
     "test": "ava",
-    "prepublish": "gulp compile"
+    "prepublish": "gulp compile",
+    "enclose": "gulp enclose"
   },
   "ava": {
     "failFast": true,