Re: Connection problems to 5.x - Please Help

Posted in 1998

Stewart & Bronwyn Hague — 30 Jul 1998 11:04:28 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

We have had a similar problem, a dirty solution to this problem is to set up generic /etc/hosts entries for the whole range of DHCP assigned IP addresses. Richard Spitz <richard.spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote in article <35C01D11.F3DDB1B5@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de>... > Darrel, Davis wrote: > > > I'm having some big problems getting a vb app (using CLI/ODBC) to connect > > to a UNIX server running Informix online 5.01. [...] I am getting > > error -945 (client is not known to database server) > > In Online 5.x, the client must indeed > be "known" to the server, meaning that its network name can be resolved > via /etc/hosts. AFAIK, DNS name resolution isn't sufficient, but I may > be wrong here.

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