FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2010/6/17 Eugene Eugene <box.eugene AT gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I have got many SQL Server hosts in freetds.conf and usually database
> connection check works fine.
> But sometimes all SQL Server databases in freetds.conf are giving
> timeout messages. It seems that it is because a server is down
> resulting in freetds is hanging while trying to connect to the offline
> host. Even though our script cycles through all the database servers,
> it relies on freetds which cannot go past the offline host. The
> resolution is to remove the host entries in freetds.conf . Setting
> different timeouts within freetds hasn’t helped.
> Any ideas how to fix this hanging problem?
>
> Thank you and best regards, Eugene.

Strange, should return after the timeout? Could you post your
connection settings?
Which FreeTDS version are you using ??

freddy77