At 4/24/2001 02:03 PM (Tuesday), Jill Thomson wrote:

>This would seem to create problems for Interbase, which I understand can
>only function over a TCP/IP network if a permanent relationship is
>established between computers and I P addresses and this is recorded in the
>hosts file which must reside on each computer.

Interbase resolves IP host names to IP addresses just fine if the host
names are handled by a DNS server in the normal manner. The hosts file
entries are not required, just convenient if there is no DNS server
available to resolve the server name to an IP address. If you can ping the
Interbase server by host name then you should be able to use that host name
in a database connection string and have it work.

Does this help?