FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

Ryan Ashley wrote:

> That's what I thought, but my Network Admin kept saying that he thinks I
> need SAMBA, and I wanted to make sure.

Well.....maybe you *do* need Samba.  But FreeTDS doesn't.  ;-)


> Interesting, when I use TDSDUMP, I get:
>
> Connecting addr 255.255.255.255 port 0
> leaving ct_connect() returning 0
>
> So it looks like it's not trying to get to the correct IP.  Why would that
> be?
>
You're having a harder than usual time of it, in case that helps.  Let's see.

Since your /etc/hosts is right, and your interfaces file is right, there are 
two
possible problems left.

1.    $SYBASE doesn't point to the interfaces file's directory.  Does "ls
$SYBASE/interfaces" work as expected?
2.    Resolver flakiness.  I have heard it on the list here that replacing 
the host
name with its IP address or vice versa sometimes resolves (as it were) this 
problem.
Don't know why.

BTW, "bugs" doesn't have to be in the DNS; it's the symbolic name of the 
database
server.  The symbolic name is used to lookup the server's real name (or 
address), in
the "query" line.

--jkl