On 22 Aug 2002 at 2:58, Gerhard Knapp wrote:

>
> hi all,
> i have allways not solved my problem of very long connection time ..
> to connect the db i need 10 till 20 seconds ...
> i tried all, what is possible ...
> -> connect with ip-number p.e.: 10.10.20.2 (but its no diffrence, DNS
> works good in my lan) -> slow connection ist the same with: IBO, IBX,
> BDE .... and so on and so on ....
>

I had a problem with reverse lookup. The IP was not in the DNS, and it seems that IB
was looking for the name. Whatever it was, but once the DNS was configured correctly,
the connection problems were gone.


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Andreas Prucha
helicon software development