At 07:21 AM 7/03/2007, you wrote:

>Is it possible to make a remote connection (WAN) over TCP-IP if you only
>have an IP-address. I can make a connection to that server with Windows
>Remote Desktop, just by entering an ip-addres (and of course account and
>password) and manage that server, but that server is not known by an
>DNS. Does that work with firebird 1.5?

Yes: it is the TCP layer that searches for the server and creates
the socket. Firebird will proceed as long as it knows it has the
socket. But if you have the domain name and IP address correctly
configured in both the server and client machines in the hosts file,
the domain address will work.

./heLen