FreeTDS Development Group

[Robert Gonzalez <robert AT robert-gonzalez.com>]

Yes, telnet did not work but isql did. I totally did not think to document
that anywhere in my process of installing freetds though. I might be able to
try to recreate this. It could also be a setting on the server I am trying
to telnet to as well. Let me investigate this a little more.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:34 PM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>wrote:

> Robert Gonzalez wrote:
> > Just a heads up that telnet failure, for me, was
> > a false positive. But that was trying to hit SQL Server 2003 from Ubuntu
> > linux.
>
> I don't see how that's technically possible.  Telnet forms a TCP
> connection.  The server can't know it's not a TDS client because it sends
> no data until you type something.
>
> Are you saying that:
>
>        $ TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H $H -p $port -U $U -P $P
>
> works and
>
>        $ telnet $H $port
>
> fails?
>
> If some combination of server and telnet don't work when they should, we'd
> need to understand and document that.
>
> --jkl
>
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Robert Gonzalez
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