At 11:17 PM 08-05-02 -0300, Daniel Rail wrote:

> >What puzzles me though, is what is the difference between
> >localhost:c:\aaa\wa.gdb
> >127.0.0.1:c:\aaa\wa.gdb
> >???
> >Surely these a functionally equivalent?
>
>These are the same, but I don't think Helen was talking about localhost
>when she mentioned local connection. Remember that there is a local
>protocol for connection to Interbase and Firebird which is different than
>using the TCP/IP protocol to connect. For the local protocol, you simply
>need to provide the pathname of the database(i.e.: c:\aaa\wa.gdb) as the
>connection string.

Oh dear, this is getting totally confused...

to be clear, it is my belief that the original questioner's problem came
from his 8 threads all being propagated from a *windows local* connection,
which is NOT thread safe. So I advocated that he use tcp/ip local
loopback. Let's get clear of this windows-local connection - it is not
feasible for multiple threads. Local loopback uses tcp/ip; local
connection doesn't; local connection and local loopback are NOT equivalent.

As to the question of whether the server "localhost" and the IP address
"127.0.0.1" are equivalent: yes, they are. However, in some Winsock
implementations, "127.0.0.1" is resolved initially as a string, not as an
IP address. This can slow things down, on these older Winsocks, but they
will both eventually resolve to localhost.

Helen


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