At 14:55 24/04/01 -0400, Doug Chamberlain wrote:

>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?

Ping works! So I imagine Interbase will function without a hosts file.
Thanks, Doug.

Peter Lawson