RE: IP aliases and socket connections

Apart from the second server should be called perky this should work fine, at least it does under Solaris. What are the hosts entries for the two IPs? When telnetting in which ip is being used (via netstat), are you using the ip or the hostname? Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # Please don't Tel: +44 1436 674729 # confuse me with Fax: +44 1436 678693 # someone who cares www.wfsoftware.com # > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Truby [mailto:ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:41 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: IP aliases and socket connections > > > Informix IDS 9.20 on HP-UX 11.0 > > We've moved some our systems from one UNIX server ("perky") to a more > powerful one ("archer"). The IP address of perky was > 193.118.114.2, and of > archer 193.118.114.5. In order to avoid widespread changes > on the client > systems, we configured the ethernet port of archer to have an > IP alias of > 193.118.114.2, as well its primary address of 193.1118.114.5. > perky was > re-configured to have a completely new address of 193.118.114.4. > > This worked a treat for the majority of applications; those > using telnet. > All connected seamlessly to archer. However, none of the > ODBC or other > sockets connections would work. All fail with error 908 > "cannot connect to > database server". If client changes are made to change the > hostname to > 193.118.114.5, rather than 193.118.114.2, the applications work fine. > > Does anyone have any idea why the telnet connections work > fine with the IP > address, but the sockets connections don't? > > thanks > Neil > > ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************