> It seems your Win 98 clients are missing an entry in their HOSTS file.
> AFAIK, there is no automated tool for this - you must open it in a text
> editor and add an entry like:
>
> 222.22.0.22 Rivendell #InterBase server.

I've seen it mentioned a few times that connecting using the IP address
directly is not a good idea but I've yet to read an explaination of why. It
would be nice to do this since it would remove having to have the user edit a
system file like this (or adding functionality that does this to my
application). Whats the problem?

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Brad Pepers
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