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Article #25601: Can fully qualified server names be used to connect to an InterBase database?

Problem:
Can I use a database name like the following to connect to an interbase
server:

myserver.mydomain.edu:d:datamytable.gdb


Solution:
The information in this article applies to:

As long as your system can resolve the hostname down to an IP address it
will work.  InterBase uses the gethostbyname() socket call to resolve the
hostname to an IP address.

Last Modified: 26-OCT-00