RE: "Long" hostnames, Oracle 9+10 and HP-UX

        Same problem here. We filed a tar with MOS and got back that it is a bug in the Oracle kernel & should be fixed in 11gR2.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Uwe Küchler Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 1:20 PM To: oracle-l
Subject: "Long" hostnames, Oracle 9+10 and HP-UX

Dear fellows,

at my current site we got a bunch of new DB servers running under HP-UX. The servers are configured to support host names up to 64 characters and some of them already exceed the former 8 character limit.

After starting up an Oracle 10gR2 instance, I found in the logs and traces that the host name was truncated to 8 characters. The same can be observed in v$instance or sys_context('userenv','host').

So far I found only one document describing this on MOS but no further pointers to potential problems or bugs.
https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=957443.1

Do you have any experiences with this?
Would you recommend to switch back the hostnames to 8 characters?

Regards,
Uwe

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Nov 02 2010 - 13:12:22 CDT