Albert wrote:

> Yes, the routes are correct and all the clients can ping the servers as well
> as telnet’em (so there aren no blocking firewalls between).
>
> When they launch the program, it usually takes 1-2 minute to connect to the
> database, as steve has pointed before, it seems like there is a dhcp
> timeout. What I don’t really know is what address do they need to resolve ¿?
> There are some old w98 computers on that network.

I have a similar problem on Win98 client <-> Linux server connection.
The problem was that I used IP address to connect to server, and some
kind of reverse DNS lookups would happen, that couldn't be resolved so I
guess they timed-out.

I solved it by replacing IP address with hostname, and everything works
fine. It also helped if I entered the client's hostname and IP address
in hosts file on server.

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