FreeTDS Development Group

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I have been trying to get freetds to work on about four different servers. 
The main error I get is 
msg 20009, Level 9 State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0
Server is unavailabel or does not exist.
 I'm exhaused, is there someone who I can pay to get this working?
I've followed everything on the web site, I've compiled with various options.

I'm trying to connect to MSSQL / MSDE 2000. One clue is when I try to do the 
telnet test from linux or Windows it does not work.