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Technical Bulletin



Summary: Cannot connect to socket x.x.x.x [getservbyname] No record of name on XP.
ViaDuct 5.X



Symptom:

When clicking on the ViaDuct icon to run ViaDuct, an error window pops up and states "Cannot connect to socket x.x.x.x [getservbyname] No record of name.".


Problem:

ViaDuct uses the Windows 'getservbyname' function which is not resolving the service name from the services file, this is a Windows XP problem.

Solution:

As a workaround enter “:23” for the port number in the communications setup. Eg “socket 127.0.0.1:23”.

14 Sept 2005 per
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