Re: Informix Network Connection

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:18:47 -0500, Thomas Ronayne wrote: Is there a domain set on the Linux box? Linux is rather pedantic about domains, if you run 'ping fubar' on fubar and it comes back with something like: 64 bytes from fubar.mydomain.com .... then you MUST specify the domain in the sqlhosts file. Art S. Kagel > Five Cats wrote: > > >> Have you tested if you can connect via the network connection on the same >> machine as Informix is running on? If that works, then have you amended >> /etc/services on the client machine? >> > No, it will not connect to the network connection (that, I think anyway, is > the problem) on the machine. I haven't tried connecting from my other > machine to this one, but I suspect that I won't get connected from it in any > event if this box can't connect to itself. > > Just for drill, everything else that is network related works as it should; > e.g., I can ssh to "myself," start any service (except Informix), ftp to > locally, all that sort of thing (none of which makes any sense, of course).