I forgot to mention that I removed the "::1" entry in /etc/hosts.

I am not sure if the machine was configured with IPV6 + 4, perhaps the
first machine used IPV4 only - that was months ago.

And by the way, isql started to mis-behave which made it ALL more
soluable, but sure left a question as to why it worked 2 days ago.

Anyway, it was weird and I wish all "Happy Holidays".

Ray

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 09:26 +0100, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
> On 23-12-2013 23:54, Ray Holme wrote:
> > Mark,
> > I will try your tricks shortly, but for now I have somehow beat the
> > beast.
> >
> > I am not sure how I really beat this, but I think this is what
> happened.
> >
> > Somehow, someway xinetd decided no more firebird service. (could not
> > find out why). Then even more mysteriously to me, it kept that
> service
> > shutdown over 2-3 reboots. I up-ed the amount of things xinetd would
> > allow in both it's xinetd.conf file and added more per_source in the
> > local firebird file for xinetd.conf.
> >
> > Then I KICKED xinetd (kill -1 pid) and everything started to work
> again.
> >
> > There are two things that baffle me about the first paragraph, but I
> am
> > happy to say that I re-booted and things are stable.
>
> Good to hear you solved it. It is a weird problem, especially because
> isql was able to connect, and I don't think that uses embedded for a
> localhost connection.
>
> Mark
>
>
>