Re: localhost weirdness

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you starting IPV6 and or using it.

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> (Cross posted to Midrange and Web400)
>
> Having a really weird problem with some PHP scripts that use DB2
> connections and the i5_xxxx APIs.
>
> Started when we moved to a new box (which is literally a clone of the
> original) - scripts that used 'localhost' started failing. Changing to
> 127.0.0.1 fixed it.
>
> Other problems forced us to switch back to the old box which prior to
> switching out had been working just fine.  It started failing in the same
> way - only thing that had happened in between was an IPL. No PHP upgrade,
> no code changes, nothing. Again switching to 127... fixed it.
>
> Opened PMR and IBM requested a trace. No problem - change the script back.
> Now the original scripts work again with localhost - yet other scripts that
> use it still fail!  Arrrgh - this is beginning to feel like Windows !!
>
> Has anyone experienced anything similar?
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
> www.partner400.com
> www.SystemiDeveloper.com
>
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