Re: Challenge for experts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easy Sybrand, 'Do Not use' is pretty broad...In the Netware 4.xx environment, for instance, if the tnsnames.ora file on the server uses DNS-type names for the servers, all db links will fail unless you load additional TCP/IP stuff - Netware does not do DNS lookup very well - which I don't like to do on an Oracle dedicated server..on these servers, the IP address needs to be specified in standard dot notation...

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

>As you, IIRC, *never* included platform and version info, and the answer is
>going to be platform and version specific, how do you expect to get a
>response?
>Also, stay away from the IP-address: they change.
>Do not use the IP address in tnsnames.ora. It does work, but it is not
>endorsed by Oracle.
>
>Regards,
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
><faheemrao_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:91qpg7$9uv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
>> I have put this question on deja soo many times but, no one is there
>> to get a solution for me.
>>
>> I want to know that what is the host name an oracle ODBC data source
>> (using Oracle ODBC driver) through registry. But Oracle ODBC data
>> source does not provide such information in the registry. I know that
>> its information is stored in the tnsnames file.Only the service is
>> stroed in the registry.
>>
>> But actual problem is that I want to get the host IP adress form the
>> C++ application.
>> Any body tell me that from where I can get that Ip address of the ODBC
>> data Source.
>> I know that I can get this Information through a C++ module that read
>> the whole tnsnames text file.
>>
>> Is there any other easy solution.??
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Faheem Rao
>>
>>
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Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 12:05:56 CST