Unable to connect to server on custom port

Hi,

I`m having problems with connecting to SQL Server On Linux using mssql-cli using Ubuntu 16.04. This is not related to firewall etc, as connection from same machine using mssql tool works fine.

Steps to reproduce:

1. setup sql server on port different than 1433
2. try to connect using following command: mssql-cli -S HOST,PORT

Expected result: Successful connection

Actual result: Connection did not succeed. Error message: Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed during the post-login phase. The connection could have timed out while waiting for server to complete the login process and respond; Or it could have timed out while attempting to create multiple active connections. The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=111; handshake=363; [Login] initialization=4; authentication=8; [Post-Login] complete=14033;

[chriswolf-nrg]

This works for me:

$ mssql-cli -S "tcp:someserver.domain.net,1435" -U someuser

You should make sure to prefix with tcp: and have the whole protocol:host,port in quotes.

[mdavis-xyz]

It works for me with that comma separation (even without double quotes).

The issue I had is that a comma separator is not intuitive. I first assumed there was some other flag (-P? Nope, that’s password), then I tried host:port.

I think this needs to be documented. PR #522 does that. (But it hasn’t been merged, and I don’t know why.)