Re: /etc/services entries.

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:24:03 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Fontaine, Maurice wrote: > > Can the service numbers be the same even if there all the servers use > NIS and would have the same service ports in the NIS domain? > > John wrote: > > > Can anyone think of a reason why I can't re-use the same services > > numbers > > > for engines on different physical servers ?? > > > Also, is Informix reading the user-name or the UID when connecting > > to > > > another engine on a different machine? > > Absolutely none. I use the same few services for all 15 machines we > > have Informix running on. No problems. > > Art S. Kagel It should not be a problem since the communication is TCP/IP and connection oriented so the combined host/service is still unique. Art S. Kagel