This new release did not solve our problem: when we use events
through a firewall the Firebird server freezes. I set the
remoteauxport to 3051 and set the port open on the firewall. We shall
take a look at the code and the firewall settings tomorrow. But the
server definitely freezes up.

Peter Murad




--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Beach" <pbeach@i...>
wrote:

> Et Al,
>
> Firebird 1.5.2 Release Candidate 1 is available for download and

testing.

> Note this is a "Release Candidate", not an official release. We

would

> like people to help test this before official release. Any comments
> issues, problems etc should be reported to the Firebird Development
> list.
>
> Builds can be downloaded from:
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/
>
> Windows, Linux, Linux NPTL and 64 bit Linux versions are all

available

> under the appropriate subdirectories at the above url.
>
> Details on what bugs have been fixed in this release, can be found

in the

> release notes at:
>
> http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?

op=devel&sub=engine&id=rnotes0152_05&nosb=1

>
> This release includes a fix for the following known problem with

events.

> Those of you who have experienced this bug should please test 1.5.2

and

> make sure that the problem has been resolved.
>
> "An old legacy bug that has continued to bug us is that, when a

client had some

> events registered and its network connection had been terminated

abnormally

> (hardware failure, reset button or task manager), then the server

would start

> using 100% of the CPU time until the "parent" port (client

connection which

> called isc_que_events() API routine) reported on its failure.
>
> This bug affected all FB versions (more or less, depending on the
> DummyPacketInterval configuration option) and only TCP/IP

connections.

>
> Solution
> Further work has been done to rectify the problem in v.1.5.2. It

now appears to be solved."

>
> I would like to thank all of those who worked on the release for

their efforts.

>
> Regards
> Firebird Release Team.