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

luckily we're completely RAC-agnostic at this site, so this will not be an issue. But I'm interested in your findings, anyway - I do RAC on other sites.

Kind regards,
Uwe

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Am 05.11.2010 20:32, schrieb Paul McManus:


> May not help but I remember running into issues with the early stages

> of a 10g R2 RAC installation where hostnames had hyphens present.

> After they were changed to underscores the installation went without a

> hitch - will dig through notes to see if it was based on real facts or

> a hunch

>  

> PMcM

>  

> >Hello Niall,

> >you mean the hyphen character in the host name? I thought so, too and

> >tried to find some documentation or other pointers to support my

> >thoughts - especially when trying to argue with Ops. But so far I

> >haven't found anything on MOS that goes like "don't use hyphens in

> >hostnames".

>

> >The only trouble we have so far is our own admin tool (DB with APEX),

> >that cannot create tables using the host name when there's a hyphen in

> >it (not allowed for Oracle object names).

>

> >Best regards,

> >Uwe

>

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