RE: [Firebird-devel] Connecting to Firebird on different ports: something is wrong.

[Thomas S. <ts...@ib...>]

> I'm surprised that I - apparently - am pretty much the only one
> that sees this as a problem. Is there anyone out there who thinks
> that the client should NOT read firebird.conf to find it's default
> port? (let alone, disable all others).
> 
> I say: the client should use the port defined by "fb_db" in the
> "services" file, use 3050 by default, or use the connect string.
> That's it. That's all there is to it.

I guess I have to agree here with Martijn. So, the current
behaviour would mean, that we can't connect to a remote
server from a server that is listening on a different port?

For example. I'm sitting on the server with Firebird 1.5
running on port 3055. How can I connect from that server
to a remote server listening on port 3060?

It seems that specifying the port in the connect string
gets ignored, when RemoteServicePort is defined.

Or am I totally wrong here?


Thanks for any clarification.

Thomas