Thursday, 25 February 2016

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Problems with connecting to Firebird 2.5.5 over TCP/IP on Linux (Ubuntu).

 

On 25 Feb 2016 08:29:14 -0800, "brucedickinson@wp.pl [firebird-support]"
<firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> @Mark I've tried 127.0.0.1 - the same error.
> @Steve I've instaled xinetd (found some suggestions about that on
> stackoverflow)
>
> I've run such command:
>
> root@john-VirtualBox:/etc/init.d# netstat -an |grep 3050
> tcp6 0 0 ::1:3050 :::*
LISTEN
>
> unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 33568 @john
> com.canonical.Unity.Scope.applications.T16459610305087
> unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 33571
> @john-com.canonical.Unity.Scope.applications.T16459610305087
>
> So I guess 3050 is ok?

No, because it is listing on ::1, which is the IPv6 localhost address, and
Firebird 2.5 and earlier only support IPv4. That is also why you can't
connect: The firebird 2.5 and earlier client libraries can only connect
through IPv4.

You need to configure xinetd to listen on 127.0.0.1.

Mark

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