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Hi,
I have been using your SSH tunnel library for some time now and it works great. All my applications have a little xml file with in it (coded) login information for the SSH and SQL server. Up to now I have always used the IP for the Destination Host, but now I have to replace the server and I want to change the IP into a dns so next time I don't have to keep the same IP (new server has a different IP).
But if I use a dns to connect, I do get connected to the server succesfully but I cannot connect to the SQL server. If I use the IP, there is no problem.
I have added the dns to the HOST file on the server, but that didn't help.
What else do I have to do, or is it a bug in the SSH software?
rg, Eric
Eric,
It's not a bug in the Chilkat internals. My guess is that the domain name to IP address (DNS) lookup is not working -- either for that particular domain name, or in general. This is a systems admin issue. If on a Windows computer, you can test the DNS lookup by starting a DOS command prompt and then typing "nslookup chilkatsoft.com", as an example.