[Koha] Which port does Z39.50 Search listen to

[Steve Kiarie]

I have installed the default Koha however the connection to library of congress fails.

Kiarie


 
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________________________________
 From: Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>
To: Steve Kiarie <sorosteroge at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz> 
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha] Which port does Z39.50 Search listen to
 

Hi,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steve Kiarie <sorosteroge at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Which port does Z39.50 Search listen to ?

Depends on which port the service is run. It can differ from provider
to provider, and does.

> I have installed Koha on an intranet based server and the connection to LOC
> through Z39.50 Search is not going through i  suspect that there is a port issue.

you have not mentioned which version of Koha you have installed.
Incidentally if you have installed an older version and have selected
the LOC target provided, it may not work as LOC has changed its
service parameters. The current LoC parameters are
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/lcserver.html#addr

FWIW, yaz-client is a handy command line tool to test your z39.50
connect strings

cheers,

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