I can only imagine that this has something to do with the client machine's
transport layers.
Normally IP address will resolve faster than machine name BTW it's the
client libaries doing the parsing here and asking the servername to connect
to the path.
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vs_zero [mailto:vincent.schmid@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 10:49 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Connection to server takes 2 minutes
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> Hello,
>
> I have installed FB 1.0 on a Windows NT4 server.
> The server is running WINS service.
>
> Some Win2K clent worstations had no problem connecting to this
> server, but some other took up to two minutes to establish the
> connection!
>
> The client program is written with Delphi 6 and IBX.
>
> The connection string I used was something like :
>
> 10.0.0.2:H:\Databases\data.fdb
>
> We have found that changing this connection string to
>
> SERVER1:H:\Databases\data.fdb
>
> resolved the problem: the connection is now very fast. Does Firebird
> try to resolve the IP addresse as if it was a NetBios name ?
>
> I'm confused, does anyone have an explanation for this rather
> unexpected result?
>
> Best Regards,
> V. Schmid
>
> vschmid@...
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