FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il gio, 2002-08-15 alle 08:17, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I can't access my Sybase server over the network.  It's not like I didn't
> change anything; I did.  It's just that it's definitely not a FreeTDS
> question.  
> 
> What I did:
> 
> I upgraded my TurboLinux server to Red Hat 7.3.  To get Sybase going
> again, I recreated the /opt/sybase-11.9.2 tree with tar, and remounted the
> device partition at 
> /opt/sybase-11.9.2/Devices.  I wrote a little script to set up the locale
> stuff the way it had been in TurboLinux.  I fired up startserver,
> connected with their isql, and voila, I was in server heaven.  
> 
> >From outside the box, though, it's another story, and not a happy one. 
> Maybe Tolstoy was onto something there.  
> 
> I can connect to the server's telnetd.  I made all the usual entries in
> /etc/services and I deleted /etc/hosts.allow.  (The RH manual says lack of
> hosts.allow means all hosts are allowed.  That's confirmed by telnetd
> working.)  I fussed with /etc/hosts, because some time ago Michael Peppler
> mentioned that Linux hosts often have faulty domain notions, that Sybase
> doesn't like: 
> 
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               sandbox.schemamania.org sandbox
> localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.1.12 sandbox.schemamania.org
> 
> But still no joy.  Any suggestions?  Is running through a complete Sybase
> reinstall necessary or even recommended?  I should think one could backup
> and restore an installation, but then I should have thunk what I did
> woulda worked.  Or is there a magic switch I overlooked?  As you can
> probably tell, I'm not a Linuxhead.  I run it to run Sybase.  
> 
> Many thanks, 
> 
RH use SSH (IMHO good decision) and for default install some firewall
role.

Just give a "ipchains -nvL" (from root) to see the firewall role
currently active.

freddy77