FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Michael Starling
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:39 AM
> 
> We have an old website that connects to a Sybase server using
> FreeTDS.  Recently, the company hosting the database switched
> servers (and port), necessitating a change to the configuration
> files.
...

> [root@www ctt]# telnet {domain-name} 4000
> Trying {IP-address}...
> Connected to {domain-name}.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.

That's bad.  Normally you need to disconnnect yourself by typing ^] and
'quit' at the prompt.  

> [root@www ctt]# tsql -C
...
>                        TDS version: 5.0

Good. 

> [root@www ctt]# tsql -H {domain-name} -p 4000 -U {username}
> locale is "en_US"
> locale charset is "ISO-8859-1"
> Password: {password}
> Msg 20004, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
> -> Read from SQL server failed.

Yup, that's bad, consistent your telnet experience.  

> Msg 20014, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
> Login incorrect.

(That's a spurious error message.  We'll fix it one day.)

> They say the new server is the same version and configuration as
> the one that was working before (except with the different port),
> but I can't be certain, since there definitely seems to be something
> amiss.

I don't think it's the server configuration.  Something's up with the
network; I suspect the firewall.  

If you had a login problem, tsql would show you the message returned by
the server, e.g.:

        Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Server , Line 0
        Login failed for user 'Einstein'.

As it is, you're unable to read anything from the server, although you
can connect to it.  

HTH.

--jkl

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