FreeTDS Development Group

[Mark Lutgen <mlutgen AT gmail.com>]

I'm having an issue on a Red Hat 5 64 bit server but I'm running a nearly
identical build on a Red Hat 4 32 bit. The error message is much like the
ones many others have complained about over the years but I've not seen one
matching this. Please allow me to show you below what happens:

In Bash as root:

export TDSDUMP=/var/log/freetds.log
export TDSDUMPCONFIG=/var/log/freetds_config.log

then I execute

tsql –S “SQLSERVER\TEST2000” -U readonly -P dbreadonly

It resolves the server name no problem but will not connect. The output is:

locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
16There was a problem connecting to the server

/var/log/freetds.log shows this:

log.c:196:Starting log file for FreeTDS 0.91
        on 2014-06-05 02:41:23 with debug flags 0x4fff.
iconv.c:330:tds_iconv_open(0x1eaea3b0, UTF-8)
iconv.c:187:local name for ISO-8859-1 is ISO-8859-1
iconv.c:187:local name for UTF-8 is UTF-8
iconv.c:187:local name for UCS-2LE is UCS-2LE
iconv.c:187:local name for UCS-2BE is UCS-2BE
iconv.c:349:setting up conversions for client charset "UTF-8"
iconv.c:351:preparing iconv for "UTF-8" <-> "UCS-2LE" conversion
iconv.c:391:preparing iconv for "ISO-8859-1" <-> "ISO-8859-1" conversion
iconv.c:394:tds_iconv_open: done
net.c:934:tds7_get_instance_port(172.16.50.28, TEST2000)
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 0 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 1 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 2 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 3 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 4 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 5 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 6 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 7 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 8 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 9 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 10 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 11 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 12 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 13 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 14 of 16
net.c:985:tds7_get_instance_port: timed out on try 15 of 16
net.c:1057:instance port is 0
login.c:436:invalid port number
mem.c:615:tds_free_all_results()

On the host running tsql commands, a tcpdump shows this:


tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96
bytes
02:42:33.743293 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:34.740010 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:35.739934 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:36.739969 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:37.740032 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:38.746722 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:39.744165 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:40.744277 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:41.744298 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:42.744369 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:43.744599 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:44.744505 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:45.744542 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:46.744630 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:47.744805 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10
02:42:48.744941 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto:
UDP (17), length: 38) 172.16.45.36.56931 > 172.16.50.28.1434: UDP, length 10


The server is indeed listening on port 1434. From the redhat box running
tsql, I see this:
telnet 172.16.50.28 1434
Trying 172.16.50.28...
telnet: connect to address 172.16.50.28: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

TCPdump shows this bidirectional communication:

03:14:20.909525 IP (tos 0x10, ttl  64, id 46922, offset 0, flags [DF],
proto: TCP (6), length: 60) 172.16.45.36.43076 > 172.16.50.28.1434: S,
cksum 0xf130 (correct), 3060033121:3060033121(0) win 5840 <mss
1460,sackOK,timestamp 3972911403 0,nop,wscale 7>
03:14:20.909660 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 127, id 32670, offset 0, flags [none],
proto: TCP (6), length: 40) 172.16.50.28.1434 > 172.16.45.36.43076: R,
cksum 0x2dca (correct), 0:0(0) ack 3060033122 win 0

Now, if I export TDSPORT=1434

I get:

locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
Error 20009 (severity 9):
        Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
        OS error 111, "Connection refused"
There was a problem connecting to the server

If I export TDSPORT=1298

I can connect to the MS SQL server:

locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
Msg 4062 (severity 11, state 1) from SQLMN201\TEST2000:
        "Cannot open user default database. Using master database instead."


output from tsql -C is:

Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
                            Version: freetds v0.91
             freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/etc
     MS db-lib source compatibility: yes
        Sybase binary compatibility: yes
                      Thread safety: yes
                      iconv library: yes
                        TDS version: 4.2
                              iODBC: no
                           unixodbc: yes
              SSPI "trusted" logins: no
                           Kerberos: no



Does anyone have any insight to this issue?  The same build works on a 32
bit redhat 4 server.

Mark