Hi,
According to my experience with DBD::Sybase + Freetds, the name resolution
is done for the host names specified in the freetds.conf file.
The following code will try to create an handler object for the host+port
specified in the [ENGINEERING] section of the freetds.conf file
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=ENGINEERING", $user, $passwd);
This is the content of freetds.conf:
[ENGINEERING]
host = host.domain.com
port = 1433
tds version = 5.0
More information are available here:
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm
Thank you.
Davide
2017-06-01 22:45 GMT+02:00 Chris Fedde <ch...@fedde.us>:
> first you want to be sure that your host can connect to the remote host
> onn the right port. You can use the telnet command to do that
>
> telnet server port
>
> where server is the name for the server in your /etc/hosts file and port
> is the port number on the remote where sybase is listening.
> iirc the default for sybase is 2638. Also iirc DBD::Sybase expects
> freeTDS to be installed and configured.
>
> good luck
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Paul M via beginners <beginners@perl.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a hosts entry that points to a specific IP address. It does not
>> appear that DBI:Sybase:server uses the /etc/hosts file? Is this correct?
>> Ping works fine in shell.
>> How would I point a server name to different IP addresses locally?
>> What does DBI use for name resolution?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>
