Hi, I use the STunnel tool to connect to my Ms-SQL database. And so far this works nice. However at one organization I have the following problem: << connect_wait: s_poll_wait timeout>> And the connection fails. Here is the log file and config file. Can you give me any hints how to check where it goes wrong? Thanks. Reinier. 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: PRNG seeded successfully 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: Certificate: stunnel.pem 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: Certificate loaded 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: Key file: stunnel.pem 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: Private key loaded 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3096]: SSL context initialized for service SQLServer 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG5[2156:3096]: stunnel 4.26 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG5[2156:3096]: Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG5[2156:3852]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3852]: FD 184 in non-blocking mode 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3852]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2009.02.23 14:45:12 LOG7[2156:3852]: SQLServer bound to 127.0.0.1:31433 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:3852]: SQLServer accepted FD=208 from 127.0.0.1:2912 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:3852]: Creating a new thread 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:3852]: New thread created 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: SQLServer started 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: FD 208 in non-blocking mode 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: TCP_NODELAY option set on local socket 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG5[2156:996]: SQLServer accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:2912 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: FD 232 in non-blocking mode 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: SQLServer connecting 10.17.98.33:8080 2009.02.23 14:49:25 LOG7[2156:996]: connect_wait: waiting 60 seconds 2009.02.23 14:50:25 LOG6[2156:996]: connect_wait: s_poll_wait timeout 2009.02.23 14:50:25 LOG5[2156:996]: Connection reset: 0 bytes sent to SSL, 0 bytes sent to socket 2009.02.23 14:50:25 LOG7[2156:996]: SQLServer finished (0 left) ; Sample stunnel configuration file by Michal Trojnara 2002-2006 ; Some options used here may not be adequate for your particular configuration ; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode ; The default certificate is provided only for testing and should not ; be used in a production environment cert = stunnel.pem ;key = stunnel.pem ; Some performance tunings socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 ; Authentication stuff ;verify = 2 ; Don't forget to c_rehash CApath ;CApath = certs ; It's often easier to use CAfile ;CAfile = certs.pem ; Don't forget to c_rehash CRLpath ;CRLpath = crls ; Alternatively you can use CRLfile ;CRLfile = crls.pem ; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting debug = 7 ;output = stunnel.log ; Use it for client mode client = yes ; Service-level configuration [SQLServer] accept = 127.0.0.1:31433 ;connect = xx.xx.xxx.xxx:443 connect = 10.17.98.33:8080 protocol = connect protocolHost = xx.xx.xxx.xxx:443 ;session cache timeout session = 60 ;time to wait for expected data TIMEOUTbusy = 60 ;time to wait for close_notify (set to 0 for buggy MSIE) ;TIMEOUTclose = 30 ;time to wait to connect a remote host TIMEOUTconnect = 60 ;time to keep an idle connection ;TIMEOUTidle = 60