"Drop Public Synonym" hangs

We have a public synonym on 10g (10.2.0.3.0) that uses a DB_Link to an 8i instance.

When trying to do anything with the synonym, there is no response - no error - no results - hangs for a very long time.

Attempted things done that all hang:

Select * from our_synonym;
drop public synonym our_synonym FORCE;
create or replace public synonym our_synonym for some_other_table;

Any ideas on why this is happening and what the remedy is?

Thanks
Bob Received on Tue Aug 05 2008 - 15:04:37 CDT