Re: Oracle Names Server - Help!

Thx For the information, that does the trick.

Joe Kazimierczyk wrote:

> To get around namesctl prompting you upon a start or stop, you can add these
> lines to your sqlnet.ora:
>
> namesctl.noconfirm = on
> namesctl.server_password = your_password
>
> In our setup a "namesctl reload" always works (and we update our configuration
> often).
>
> I'm not sure I understand the original problem, but I would think that if
> names was unsuccessful in resolving a name in cache, you would NOT want it to
> check the database. If it did, then every typo someone made would degrade
> nameserver's performance. What we do is: update the namesserver database
> with NETMAN (pre net8, but should be similar?), then from within netman, click
> on "reload namesservers" which forces a reload on all of our nameservers, and
> everyone can see the new tnsname. If you can still force the reload from
> net8's configuration tool, then you won't need to bother with scripts to
> start, stop or reload nameservers.
>
> joe kazimierczyk
> kazimiej_at_bms.com
>
> carl christianson wrote:
>
> > Further update,
> > talking to Oracle Support they indicated that the behaviour I'm seeing is
> > how it works.
> > There is an entry for expire time which is in seconds. I set that to 1 but
> > the names server doesn't seem to refresh itself.
> > I therefore went down the path of just executing a "namesctl reload" to
> > refresh the names server. Unfortunately that doesn't always work. The
> > only guarnteed way to get it to reload the database information is to do a
> > "namesctl stop", "namesctl start".
> > The problem with getting this to occur through a script is that "namesctl
> > stop" then prompts you with a yes/no prompt. So having cron just stop/start
> > the names server will be more difficult.
> >
> > I would like to say that Oracle really doesn't get it. IF I hit the names
> > server and it is unsuccessful resolving a name in the cache YOU WOULD THINK
> > that it would then check the database to resolve the name. Support informs
> > me that is not the way it works. Sigh. Sorry for the Rant...
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions on this I'm all ears....
> > thx
> > Carl Christianson
> >
> > > Carl Christianson
Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 09:15:37 CST