Subject RE: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 2.5.4 - CentOS - mon$remote_address 0.0.0.0
Author Marianne Castel - Titelive

Thanks Steve for the information. I think we’ll try on a virtual machine the centOS versions with the different mode of firebird (classic, superserver, superclassic).

 

To Thomas, yes that’s real remote connections from different remote servers (there is no local connections).

 

 

De : firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]
Envoyé : mercredi 10 juin 2015 08:32
À : firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Objet : Re: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 2.5.4 - CentOS - mon$remote_address 0.0.0.0

 

 


> Hello ,
>
> So Dmitry suggested it , we have disabled IPV6 on our server CentOS 7 (Firebird
> 2.5.4 Classic server (I forgot to mention it in my first mail)).
> By following the centos FAQ :
>
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS7#head-8984faf811faccca74c7bcdd74de7467f2fcd8ee
> Rebooting the server.
> But even after this modification the mon$remote_address is still giving
> 0.0.0.0
>
> Any ideas are welcome.

Is this a real remote connection from a remote client or an attachment locally on the server?

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> Marianne
>
> De :
firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]
> Envoyé : lundi 8 juin 2015 12:47
> À :
firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Objet : [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 2.5.4 - CentOS - mon$remote_address
> 0.0.0.0
>
>
>
> 08.06.2015 10:02, Marianne Castel wrote:
>>
>> We were working with Firebird 2.5.2 on Debian .
At that time, in the
>> monitoring table MON$ATTACHEMENTS I could see the IP address of the
>> client connected to a database.
>>
>> Now our administrators have decided to work with CentOS and the last
>> available packages thus Firebird 2.5.4, and now in the databases on
>> that server in the table MON$ATTACHEMENTS table the field
>> mon$remote_address always contains : 0.0.0.0
>>
>> May be that the server is different too (network connection?) …
>>
>> Any idea why the IP address is no more reported ? How could we have the
>> IP address again in the monitoring table ?
>
> Interesting. One possible explanation can be found here:
>
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17220006/in-what-conditions-getpeername-returns-ipport-0-0-0-00
>
> Firebird 2.x does not support IPv6 and always listens on a AF_INET (i.e.
> v4) socket, but maybe it could be related somehow.
Have you tried to
> disable IPv6 on the new server box?
>
> Dmitry
>
>