Comments on: PowerDNS on SuSE Linux & SQL Server 2005 – Part 1

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:45:47 +0000

Thanks for time and effort you put in to this. Very helpful!

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links for 2009-06-28 | blog/shl@INTERDOSE — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:01:08 +0000

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By: AVerniks

AVerniks — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:50:34 +0000

As for me, everything is fully satisfied.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:39:09 +0000

Hi Rose,

The set up I describe is MS SQL Server on windows providing the data store for the PDNS Authroative DNS Server running on Linux. Make sure that your windows server (green) can be pinged from the Linux server and also you can telnet on port 1434 to green to check that the port for The SQL Browser is listening this is used to resolve the port that the instance of MSSQL is listening on. Also try telneting to the port that the MS SQL Server is listening on. In short make sure that everything is reachable before testing using tsql.

regards

Tobi

By: rose

rose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:03 +0000

I really appreciate for your reply.
would you please help me in these questions also?
my computer name is “green” and the instance of my SQL server is MYSQL.
i changed the content of the freetds.conf file to:

[localhost] //does the server name have to be written in braces?
host = green
instance = MYSQL
;port = 1433 //is ignored
tds Version = 8.0

the command “tsql -S localhost -U sa” is used to check the connection, but this time after password line, the error “There was a problem connecting to the server” appeared. now what should i do?

I installed the DNS server on my windows server 2003. is it necessary to run a DNS server on linux also?

I knew from HOWTO that installing freetds is required for connecting to SQL server. is it also necessary to install other packages you listed in HOWTO like libmysqlclient15?

my /mnt/hgfs directory is empty. does it have to contain any file?

regards
rose

By: admin

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:32:30 +0000

Hi,

TDS is the protocol that SQL Server uses. The host=localhost needs to be pointed to the name of the server/computer that SQL Server is listening on. Also SQL will only default to port 1433 if it is NOT a named instance. For example if you have a computer called MYPC and SQL server as the default instance you can just specify the name. If you have an instance call SQL2005D_1 then you will need to also use the instance setting as detailed in the HowTo.

Regards

Toby

By: rose

rose — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:21:02 +0000

Hi
I did what the article said, but the command “tsql -S localhost -U sa” resulted in the error:

Msg 20009, Level 9, State -1, ServerOpenClient, Line -1
Unable to Connect:Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
there was a problem connecting to the server

the entry of freetds.conf is:

[localhost]
host = localhost
port = 1433
tdsVersion = 8.0

I run the tsql command on suse10 installed on vmware on windows XP
I have an entry of local host in \etc\hosts file

please help me to fix the problem, as u mentioned in u’r article, there is no other article about connecting to SQL Server 2005 from a vmwared suse 10.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:13:12 +0000

Sure Andrew, do with as you need. Just provide a link back to the original just incase I update it.

Tobi.

By: AndrewBoldman

AndrewBoldman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:18:37 +0000

I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:12:02 +0000

Hi Pirsey,

There not much esle other than what’s available on the post, one of the reasons I did it. If there is anything specific I can help with, I will do my best.

Regards

Tobi.