Nick Upson wrote:

> 2009/4/27 Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...
> <mailto:kjell.rilbe%40datadia.se>>:
>
> >
> > Well, I've never had the "privilege" to administer any "real" servers,
> > just my own workstations. But hey have often had a lot of services
> > running when I've changed the hostname. I've never seen any problems
> > with it.
> >
> > Frankly, I would have expected Firebird to detect this and act
> > accordingly, even it it were forcing an immediate shutdown.
> >
> > But I wouldn't know the problems involved of course. Development wise I
> > mean.
> >
> > My point is that maybe it's not all that strange that someone, e.g.
> > Nick, would be unaware that there's a risk involved in doing what he
> > did. It's not obvious.
>
> in my defense, I didn't do it but my collegue did thinking that the
> system would handle it (and the os did AFAIK)

I wasn't saying you were ignorant, if that's how it came across.

I just think that at least with Windows, it's usually safe to change the
hostname without risking services to go berserk. I have never heard of
or observed anything else.

Is it just me being ignorant here? If not, then perhaps this could be a
valid feature request for FB - to gracefully handle a changed hostname,
at least on Windows where that's probably expected.

Kjell
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