Re: Very strange behavior of SQLServer with connection from CGI

From: Geoff N. Hiten (SRDBA_at_Careerbuilder.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:41:43 -0500

First guess, this is not a default SQL instance. I think your customer
network has disabled UDP as a "security" measure. SQL clients use a UDP
connection to port 1434 to resolve port numbers for named instances. If
your customer won't allow UPD, you can modify the connection information to
include the port number of the named instance or create a client alias that
specifies a port number. You can use the SQL Server Network utility to lock
an instance to a port number.

Finally, don't cross-post to the universe. 

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<mdurliSPAMFILTER@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I developed a win32 .exe CGI that connects to a clustered SQLServer to
> report some data.
> The software is written with Borland C++Builder.
> This is the oledb string:
> Name=Provider=SQLOLEDB;Password=xxx;Persist Security Info=True;User
> ID=xxxx;Data Source=xxxxx;Initial Catalog=xxxxx;Network
> Library=dbmssocn
>
> It suddendly stopped working on my customer network, so I made some
> test and I verivied that the problem is on the connection with
> SQLServer: my test program just opens a connection, closes it and
> exits, reporting in a log file if the open was successful or failed.
>
> If I run the program locally, just launching it, no problem, it works.
> I can run it mutilple time continuosly and is connects every time.
>
> If I run the program through my webserver, as a CGI that's how it is
> supposed to work (http:\\localhost\scripts\connect.exe), it connects
> the first time, and then I have to wait 40 seconds to connect again
> successfully, or it fails.
>
> If I try against MY sqlserver on my laptop or on my network no 40 sec
> problems, but on my customer network, with THEIR SQLServer , if I try
> to connect from their webserver, or from my laptop webserver, I have
> this 40sec problem.
>
> I analyzed the network traffic, and I discovered that when I run my
> test program locally it originates only TCP/IP packets, and SQLServer
> answers only with TCP/IP.
> But when I use it from the webserver as a CGI, it originates an UDP
> packet, then SQL answers with another UDP packet, and then they
> communicate over TCP/IP.
> This when it works: the second time my program continues to send the
> UDP packet, but it receives no answer, and fails the communication.
>
> I can only say that:
> - we haven't touched the program for months, and it really stopped
> working suddendly, so I suspect that something in my customer netowrk
> has changed
> - I tried many different OLEDB strings, disabling connection pooling
> and all the services, calling the SQLServer by name or IP...
> - the problem can't be related to my program, because now is really
> just an oledb connection test
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Mattia

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