FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

There is a bug in 0.52 regarding the ip lookup that affects some
platforms.  It is fixed in either 0.53pre1 or the CVS version.

Brian

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David Derr wrote:

> Hello.  I am trying to use freetds in conjunction with php and MS SQL
> Server 7.  I have posted a couple quiestions to the php mailing list, but
> have hit a wall there.
> 
> I have included the reply I recieved to the first post and my second post
> below.  I believe I have a configuration problem unrelated to php or the
> database because it seems freetds always wants to connect to
> 255.255.255.255 port 0 and that is not what I had in the interfaces file.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am sooo close and I really hope
> this solution will perform better than our existing one which is using an
> ODBC bridge.
> 
> Thanks!
> David Derr
> 
> 
> Posteded to the PHP General Mailing List...
> 
> Thanks for you build record, that helped greatly,  I think my main problem
> was using 0.52 instead of 0.51.
> 
> No more seg faults now when I try to run my script, but I am still not
> getting a connection to the database, and I think the problem may be the
> fact the freetds is not finding any configuration information.  Here is
> the php script I am running:
> 
> <?
> putenv("TDSDUMP=/usr/local/apache_test/logs/tds.log");
> 
> $nDBConn = mssql_connect("mmg", "username", "passwd");
> echo "ConnectID: $nDBConn<br>\n";
> 
> $nStmt = mssql_query("select * from david_test", $nDBConn);
> 
> while ($aRow = mssql_fetch_array($nStmt)) {
>         echo $aRow["Name"];
>         echo "<p>\n";
> }
> 
> mssql_close($nDBConn);
> echo "hello dave";
> ?>
> 
> And when this runs there are connection errors, but if I look in the
> TDSDUMP file I specified at the beginning of the script I see this (which
> is not the ip or port I specified in my interfaces file): 2001-10-17
> 09:39:24 Connecting addr 255.255.255.255 port 0
> 
> Along with these errors in my Apache error log file:
> connect: Network is unreachable
> DB-Library: Login incorrect.
> 
> Here is my interfaces file, located at /usr/local/freetds
> mmg
>         query tcp tds4.2 ip.of.db.server 1433
> 
> And last, here is the value of the SYBASE env variable:
> [root /root]# echo $SYBASE
> /usr/local/freetds
> 
> Did you or anyone else run in to this problem?  I looked in the config
> file to see if there was a path you could specify for the interfaces file
> but found only an alternate method of configuring freetds, so I renamed it
> to zzz_freetds.conf and still get the error message saying it is
> connecting to 255.255.255.255.
> 
> Thanks again in advance for any help.
> 
> David Derr
> davidderr AT britsys.net 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Talbott [mailto:nickt AT powys.gov.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:45 AM
> To: David Derr; php-general AT lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] FreeTDS and SQL Server 7
> 
> On Tuesday 16 October 2001 4:18 pm, David Derr wrote:
> > Hey all, I was reading an old article at php builder about conntecting
> > to SQL Server 7 on a Windows machine from a Linux machine via FreeTDS.
> > (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3)
> [snip]
> >
> > Has anyone had sucees in getting this to work?  I will include my
> > config and compile commands below as well as the php script that is 
> > breaking things.
> [snip]
> 
> We have that working reliably with the exception that I have used TDS 
> protocol version 4.2 rather than 7.0 because I had read that this was a 
> little less well developed, and 4.2 gives you all you need in any case.
> 
> We're using slightly different components:  Apache 1.3.20, PHP 4.0.6,
> FreeTDS
> 0.51 running on a Slackware 8.0 base (Linux kernel 2.2.19 with glibc
> 2.2.3)
> 
> I've attached an HTML file of our build record for this.
> 
> The other thing to note is that this approach allows you to use PHP's
> mssql_
> calls, but only those that have direct sybase_ equivalents.  So make sure
> you
> check out which calls are common to both sets of functions and don't try 
> calls that only exist in the mssql_ function list.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nick Talbott, IT Policy and Strategy Manager, Powys County Council
> email:        nickt AT powys.gov.uk
> fax:  01597 824781
> web:  www.powys.gov.uk and www.powysweb.co.uk
> 
> 
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