RE: Winsock Error : GEtServByName (WSANO_DATA)

Posted in 2000

Murray Wood — Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:13:17 +1200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

David If you can not ping and telnet by name (not IP address) then the DNS / hosts table ius the problem. It looks more like you have not set up hosts.equiv to allow your client to connect. (Put the client server name in hosts.equiv if you can ping client from your server). MW -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of David Van Wallendael Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:05 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Winsock Error : GEtServByName (WSANO_DATA) Hi, I'm using informix client inet 5.01 ( 16 bits ) with NT 4 .0 service pack 6. My server is a SUN SOLARIS with INOFORMIX ON-LINE 7.31 When i test the connection with ilogin.exe, I have always this message : SQLERROR -932, winsock error ( GetServByName (WSANO_DATA)) I can reach the host by using ping and Telnet...The IP adress of my pc is well defined in the file Hosts on the Sun Solaris. WINSOCK.DLL =>expected windows version 3.10 Any idea what could be wrong ? David Van Wallendael