FreeTDS Development Group

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

Ken Collins wrote:
> So I am using the dblib api in my TinyTds ruby binding [1] and I have
> always noticed that I have to specify the dataserver name in
> freetds.conf for a connection to be established. Would this be
> considered a bug or is a host and/or custom port not allowed? 

You should be able to use just a hostname and rely on the environment
and/or built-in defaults to establish the port and protocol version using
a recent snapshot.  Christos Zoulas contributed a patch for that sometime
in the last year IIRC.  

When freetds.conf was invented, I think the developers expected every
server to be completely described in the file.  Over the years its become
clearer that it is unnecessary in homogeneous TDS 7.0+ environments. 
Ironing out all the wrinkles wouldn't be hard, but needs someone to do it.
 

--jkl