Chris M wrote:

> What is the feasiblity of this?
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> I *CONSTANTLY* have to fight with clients to get the connection strings
> to work. Its one of the biggest time consumers for my support. I am
> trying to think of a way to make it more universal. Is this approach
> possible? or something like it maybe?
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> 1. In aliases.conf I always install an alias with my product name
> pointing to the database on the server.
> example: myProduct = c:\db\data.fdb
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> 2. Now the tricky part, for me at least. Can we do something that
> talks to their DNS server and says to add an entry called
> "MyProduct_FB_server" or somethign that will definatlly not be in their
> already and give it the IP address of the server we just installed.

What about adding a line to the hosts file?

fb.myproduct.server 192.168.0.246

Mike

> 3. Now we can access the DB at MyProduct_FB_Server:myProduct" no matter
> who the client is. The client apps can always look for that connection,
> be default at least.
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> Is this something possible or are their too many hoops to jump through.
> I would like there to be some simple command i could run that was like
> RegisterDNSName('MyProduct_FB_server',192.168.1.100) and be done from there.
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> Am I going in the right direction or am i just way off?
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> Thanks
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