Perl DBI and remote host connections

[David Bandel]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:04:27 -0800, Bill Campbell
<linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004, David Bandel wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I have done a lot of local web <--> local db work without a problem
> >using Perl DBI.  However, this time, the db is remote.  So I went
> >through the motions of putting in the necessary dbi parameters:
> >
> >$dbh = DBI???>connect("dbi:Sybase:database=$database;host=$host;port=$port",
> >$username, $passwd);

This is weird (and not what I sent).  

> 
> Your post had some funny characters that may just be typical
> Microshaft formatting.

No, this came nowhere near any M$ system (Google runs on Linux), so I
have no idea how it got corrupted _after_ I sent it.

> 
> 
> 
> >I have all the variables properly defined like so:
> >my $host=192.168.7.59;
> >my $port=1433;
> >
> >Using tcpdump, I get no outgoing connection attempts to the remote
> >server.  My || die 'message' $! ; tells me no db connection (duh).  Of
> >course not, there's not even an arp who-has looking for the remote
> >host.
> >
> >What have I missed?  Don't believe I need to include all the
> >networking modules, but I may be wrong.
> 
> Firewall blocking?  Can you telnet to port 1433 on the remote system?

No firewall between the two systems.  They're on the same subnet
(192.168.7.0/24) and connected via a hub.  The second system can be
accessed from another Linux system using a PHP app.

It just looks like nothing is hitting the wire outbound.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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