> > Thanks for the answer, but would you be able to accompany it
> > by a suggestion as to what should be done to avoid the
> > timeout? After a couple hours of attempts, finicking with
> > ports and firewalls, I don't seem to be able to get a
> > connection at all. Is there a FireBird setting responsible
> > for that, or is it the Linux issue?
>
> FB has no timeout limit that I am aware of,

Oh, it _will_ timeout ... __eventually__ that is.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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