Do you have an entry in your /etc/services file like this:

gds_db 3050/tcp # Firebird SQL Database Remote Protocol

This allows firebird to talk on that port. I am not sure about gentoo but my setup is
Red Hat with 2.4.2x kernel and firebird and jaybird are working well in the pure_java mode.

Good luck,

Steve



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>I have just spent about 4 hours trying to connect to Firebird from
>Java before I finally made it. I am using the following setup:
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>- Gentoo Linux with Kernel 2.6.10 and glibc 2.3.4
>- Firebird 1.5.1 built as Classic (inetd) server
>- JayBird 1.5.5 as Java JDBC driver
>- Tomcat 5.0. as webserver / app container
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>All of this is running on the same gentoo linux box.
>Installing Firebird was easy, apart from the fact that the SuperServer
>did not work, so I installed the classic server (USR="inetd" for
>gentooers).
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>Installing Java and Tomcat was also easy, but trying to connect to
>Firebird from my java app was a very big problem. I tried out 100s of
>variants in connecting and it finally turned out that it works only
>with the class 2 "native" driver, using libjaybird.so.
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>With the "pure java" class 4 driver --- no way as it seems. I always
>got the same error message during my tests - could not complete
>network request to host "..."
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>Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work?
>Is the class 2 driver better or faster anyway?
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>Thanks for your answers
>Batz33
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