Re: Connection timing out to valid server

You are indeed correct...*something* is stopping stuff getting through on
port 1433, but even after flushing iptables I can still not get through.
>From my local machine I can get through to the server on port 1433...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, but I guess this is moving
beyond freetds!


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2009/1/30 Jared O'Connell <[email protected]>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have setup freetds on Ubuntu 8.04 server according to this guide:
> >
> >
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux
> >
> > I have the following entry in my freetds.conf:
> >
> > [haltkoer]
> >        host = xxx
> >        port = 1433
> >        tds version = 8.0
> >
> >
> > I try to run sqsh as so:
> >
> > sqsh -S haltkoer -U xxx -P xxx
> >
> > but eventually receive
> >
> > src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: xxx:1433: Connection timed out
> >
> > Even though:
> >
> > -I can ping the server
> > -doing a tcpdump I see the relevant connection attempts
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Jared
>
> Try with telnet! If it doesn't work probably it's a firewall.
> Are you sure port is the standard port (1433??)
>
> freddy77
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