> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alexandre Benson Smith
> <iblist@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>> I am facing a recurrent but not in every time problem when starting the
>> FB service on a win2003 server.
>>
>> It was working ok for some months on that server, then one day the
>> server was restarted and in the Firebird.log I found this entry:
>>
>> METALLOYS-SERVE (Client) Mon Aug 21 10:54:07 2006
>> Guardian starting: C:\Arquivos de
>> programas\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe
>>
>>
>> METALLOYS-SERVE (Server) Mon Aug 21 10:54:07 2006
>> INET/inet_error: bind errno = 10013
>>
>> METALLOYS-SERVE (Server) Mon Aug 21 10:54:08 2006
>> Database:
>> Unable to complete network request to host "metalloys-serve".
>> Error while listening for an incoming connection.
>> Foi feita uma tentativa de acesso a um soquete de uma maneira que é
>> proibida pelas permissões de acesso.
>>
>>
>>
>> METALLOYS-SERVE (Client) Mon Aug 21 11:08:17 2006
>> Guardian starting: C:\Arquivos de
>> programas\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe
>>
>> this message:
>> Foi feita uma tentativa de acesso a um soquete de uma maneira que é
>> proibida pelas permissões de acesso.
>>
>> could be translated to something like:
>> Was made an attempt to access a socket in a way that is prohibited by
>> the access permissions
>>
>> This lookslike to me somekind of policies problem, but why the server
>> starts ok in the next reboot and why it stops again without anything
>> changed on the policies ???
>
> This problem is not one I have every faced, but I agree it looks like
> a policy problem. Is there a 'feature' to limit the number of
> connection attempts per second?
>
> What user is the service installed as, and what sort of rights does it
> have? If it is not an admin type user, I wonder if there is now some
> sort of socket behaviour in a policy for non administrators.
>
> Unless the UPS was added and immediately you had problems, I do not
> understand why that would be considered for such an error.
>
> Adam
>
>

Some of the more recent security patches attempt to detect and prevent
Denial of Service attacks on Server 2003. This may be a place too look.
There is documentation for the registry settings on msdn.

Max