Subject Re: [firebird-support] -923 error when connecting to database
Author Helen Borrie
At 10:40 AM 20/07/2011, Josh Aguilar wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I'm using Flamerobin to connect to a remote Firebird server and I'm
>getting the following error.
>
> *** IBPP::SQLException ***
> Context: Database::Connect
> Message: isc_attach_database failed
>
> SQL Message : -923
> Connection not established
>
> Engine Code : 335544421
> Engine Message :connection rejected by remote interface
>
>This only happens when I try to access the database remotely but if I
>ssh into the remote machine and access the database using isql, it can
>connect fine.
>
>I'm using Firebird 2.1 on a CentOS 5.5 machine.

Show us the connection string you are using from the remote client, also the other settings. We've seen this before with Flamerobin users, where they provide, e.g., both the hostname and the IP address in the FR setup params for a database...so it gets resolved as nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:hostname:/path/to/database

./heLen