Re: Can ping, but can't connect.

Cosmo Lee wrote: > > Online 7.2UC1 on Unixware 2.1.1 > > Something happened all of a sudden and we're not sure what the problem > is. While things worked fine previously, suddenly clients can't connect > to the server. Two members of a replication pair can ping each other. > User "informix" Dbaccess from each can access the other w/o a password > (hosts.equiv - OK). Traceroute shows a single hop from one to the > other. But data replication fails to make a connections. > > Other users can telnet to the server to run Dbaccess. But their Delphi > programs can't connect to the server. > > Someone else set up the DNS server and routing on this machine. I don't > know a whole lot about networking TCP, so I'm not sure just where to > begin. > > Any help is appreciated. > > -- > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. > > Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY > > "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * you may check out sqlhosts file in etc directory to see if the protocol is correct, or some hidden file ( I cant remember correctly) related to trusted client connection. It should be resident in $INFORMIXDIR, and I encountered this kind of error accidently even no para changed. good luck ;) robert