Subject Can't use JDBC with Firebird RC2
Author Ken Freeman
Post date 2002-01-02T19:21:05Z
Env: Windows 2K, Firebird RC2, Interclient 2.01. I had removed all traces (I think) of Interbase before installing Firebird. When I try to use JDBC, I get the following error:
 
interbase.interclient.CommunicationException: [interclient] Communication error: A socket exception occurred while trying to establish a socket connection to server localhost.
The message of the SocketException is "Connection refused: connect".
See API reference for exception interbase.interclient.CommunicationException
 at interbase.interclient.JDBCNet.establishSocketStreams(JDBCNet.java:92)
 at interbase.interclient.JDBCNet.<init>(JDBCNet.java:74)
 at interbase.interclient.Connection.connect(Connection.java:317)
 at interbase.interclient.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:285)
 at interbase.interclient.DataSource.getConnection(DataSource.java:532)
I'm pretty sure that the problem is because nothing is listening to port 3060. I'm running a utility to check for port listeners, and it reports the same exception for localhost/3060. It does find a listener on port 3050, but JDBC can't talk to that.
 
Here's the lines I added to my SERVICES file:
 
gds_db   3050/tcp             # do I need this?
interserver      3060/tcp                   # InterBase InterServer
I tried stopping and restarting the Interbase Server service, and rebooting.
 
One more thing: I noticed that the service runs ibserver.exe. There are no interserver.exe or gds_db.exe processes.
 
Thanks,
Ken Freeman
Senior Architect
AppIQ, Inc.
6 New England Executive Park, 4th Floor
Burlington, MA 01803
781-425-6260 x114