Besides, you don't want public access to the database, only to the
database cllient, usually a website. The client can be configured to
access a fixed db machine ip address. THe gateway hub _can_
distribute ip addresses, but it doesn't have to. You can use a
dedicated one on the database machine,

Kyle

On 24 Apr 2001, at 14:55, Doug Chamberlin wrote:

> 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.
>
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