FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:05:44 +0100, "Fernando Toro" <fernando AT spansurf.net>
wrote:
>  
>  when i run a simple php script just
>  to probe connection it doesn't get connected.
> And i get this in tds.log file:
> 
>                              ip address pointer is NULL

The next line in the log tells you whether the servername was not found or
not specified.  If not specified, PHP didn't pass a server name to
FreeTDS.  If not found:

1.  FreeTDS failed to find the name in freetds.conf or similar, or
2.  The server's machine name could not be resolved to an ip address.

You can set TDSDUMPCONFIG to a filename, run your script, and get a very
complete answer about FreeTDS's effort to locate your server.  

> So what happens here, its a library problem, but what library db lib??
> (i thought that wiht freetds it wouldn`t neccesary to install sybase
> client library)

FreeTDS replaces Sybase's libraries.  You do not need Sybase's client
software or libraries to use FreeTDS or PHP.  

HTH.

--jkl