Re: Oracle on Linux - what is it looking up on DNS?

Richard,

One thing to take a look at is your /etc/hosts file, make sure that the machine you are connecting from has an entry and the machine itself is listed. I have a similar configuration and have not faced this problem.

Good luck,
--Stan
sgreen at cs utk edu

Richard Senior <see_sig_for_address_at_r-senior.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:F4MDJD.15o_at_r-senior.demon.co.uk...
>I have installed the early access release of Oracle 8 for Linux on my old
>486 machine. Apart from running this database, this machine also grabs my
>mail and news and acts as my Internet router using a combination of IP
>masquerading and Diald.
>
>Oracle actually works very well, despite the lowly machine. The problem is
>that whenever I connect to the database, either locally via svrmgrl or
>sqlplus, or remotely via SQL*Net, something does a DNS lookup that
>triggers Diald to pick up the phone and connect to the Internet.
>
>I know it is a DNS lookup because I have traced it through Diald. If I
>edit /etc/resolv.conf to comment out the nameservers outside my network,
>the DNS lookup fails and I get an immediate connection. If I disable
>Diald, the DNS lookup goes ahead and I get a connection after a timeout of
>180s approx.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what it might be trying to resolve? Or does
>anyone have Oracle for Linux on a similar network but not on the machine
>that handles the IP masquerading?
>
>--
>Thanks and regards,
>
>Richard Senior
>London, England
>
>Mail: richard at r-senior spot demon spot co spot uk
>WWW : http://www.r-senior.demon.co.uk/
Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 00:00:00 CST