Why does DBD::Sybase return 'cannot assign requested adress'?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have freetds(0.51) installed and working fine with PHP to connect to an mssql 2000 server from a Solaris 2.6 box. Yet DBD::Sybase (0.91)built with the same freetds returns 'cannot assign requested address'. What would cause this? Thanks.

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Re: Why does DBD::Sybase return 'cannot assign requested adress'? by mpeppler (Vicar) on Jun 20, 2002 at 14:10 UTC
"Cannot assign requested address" usually comes from a bind() call that is done with a port that is already in use. However - DBD::Sybase (and freetds) shouldn't call that function at all, so I don't know what could be causing this. Have you tried asking on the FreeTDS mailing list? Michael	[reply]
Re: Why does DBD::Sybase return 'cannot assign requested adress'? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 25, 2003 at 05:03 UTC
Seems a lot of old Perl code has weird arguments to socket() and bind() calls which request a particular local port and/or interface. This used to work but no longer does.	[reply]
Re: Why does DBD::Sybase return 'cannot assign requested adress'? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2002 at 14:01 UTC
Yes, I posted this several months ago. The recent Apache security bug has me rebuilding and reviewing. Jim H.	[reply]