--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "sllimr7139"
<_rmcontrols@m...> wrote:

> Is there another type of connection at this point?

?

> I'm assuming that
> I'll be behind any firewall on the local network. I'm trying to
> figure out a way to detect all running FB servers on a local network
> so that my clients can visually select a server from a listbox during
> the application install.

You could test the output of nmap or somesuch.

> What I don't want to do is TCP to 3050 and find out later that it
> causes some kind of problem and hangs the server for example.

If it's a Linux boxen it won't care, it'll just kick you off if you
try to do anything that it doesn't understand.

> I guess
> if I don't try to communicate with the port, I just connect and
> disconnect that should be good enough, eh?

Sure. You'll either connect or you won't.