Why resolve a Host name when you know the actual IP address? It will
Eliminate any translation , thus finding its way to the stack faster.
It does however have to travel to the NDIS layer, and back which would
account for some speed loss, but certainly not 10 seconds.

Gordon Hamm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Slow at Startup


> At 08:00 PM 02-08-01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Im not doing a DNS lookup, just simply 192.168.0.2:c:\mydatabase.gdb.
> >It does seem to work fine once connected.
>
> This is not recommended. If your network doesn't use DNS then just create
an entry in the hosts file with any server name, e.g
> 192.168.0.2 IBSERVER
>
>
> >In fact, its even slow when on the same machine with the IP of
192.168.0.2.
> >Wierd. If I use local host (which I assume uses Netbeui)
> >It loads much faster..
>
> LOCALHOST is a default server that exists on your local machine with an IP
address of 127.0.0.1.
>
> If you connect using a TCP/IP string, it makes a TCP/IP connection
(recommended). If you connect using a NetBEUI string, it uses Windows
networking which is both noisy and slow.
>
> Here is a TCP/IP string:
>
> MYSERVER:c:\databases\mydata.gdb
>
> Here is a NetBEUI string:
>
> \\MYSERVER\c:\databases\mydata.gdb
>
> The golden rule is - although you CAN, don't use a raw IP address to
connect. I don't know why this recommendation exists but it's documented
and the archives show a lot of people reporting problems from it.
>
> I guess you also know that connected to a Windows mapped drive is a No-No.
>
> btw, whatever you do, never let any client connect with a string that
omits the backslash after the physical drive designator. This is a known
cause of the kind of data corruption that you have to pay an expert to fix.
Jason made IB_Connection reject a connection string in this format but other
clients based on the BDE, IBX, etc. won't stop you.
>
> regards,
> Helen
>
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