were you using dhcp to assign the ip address to the client computers?

-steve

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 15:37 +0200, Milan Babuskov wrote:

> 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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