Hi,
To me it worked after the reboot, and the server still working ok.
Here is the link where i found this solution. Hope it helps.
Maybe you can check your hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, but if you can
connect firebird without ibevents, these files are probably ok.

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Valdir.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jorge@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: [ib-support] Re: FB on linux


> Hello,
> I've added the ip of server itself at the /etc/hosts file, but it
> doesn't work, and application hangs when we register events with
> IBEvents component.
>
> What's the matter? Server : Red Hat Linux 8.0
>
>
> --- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Valdir Stiebe Junior"
> <valdir@p...> wrote:
> > Hi, we have an application that use Firebird Server at RedHat linux
> 7.3 and
> > last week our customer changed the server machine from a IBM
> Netfinnity to a
> > IBM xSeries. Then in the new server was freezing the ibserver
> process when
> > our application because it use the IBEvents (delphi ibx) component.
> (The
> > weird thing is that the NetFinity was using RHLinux 7.3 too).
> > The only way to solve this problem was adding the ip of server
> itself at the
> > /etc/hosts file.
> >
> > It looks like this now:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 192.168.1.1 myserver.mydomain myserver
> >
> > I'm sending this to the ib-support because i know that others
> already asked
> > about this problem before. And to ask if this behavior of freezing
> the
> > ibserver shouldn't raise an exception instead of freeze the server?
> If this
> > is a know bug or not?
> >
> > TIA.
>
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