Adaptive Server uses directory services to determine the address at which to listen for
clients.
When you start Adaptive Server, it:
- Looks for the server name supplied in
the command line -s option. If the server name is not
supplied in the command line, it determines its own name by checking the value
of the DSLISTEN environment variable. If the DSLISTEN environment variable is
not set, Adaptive Server assumes that the server name is SYBASE.
- Looks in directory services for an
entry that matches the name found in the steps above.
- Uses the network information provided
by the directory services entry it has found to listen for client
connections.