Re: Problems Renaming the HOST

According to the DNS rules it is not allowed to use 'special' characters, like spaces and - .
Oracle is strictly adhering to the RFC (I don't remember the number), while vendor implementations of DNS may allow using it.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Peter Betz" <p.betz_at_optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:39ffbb67$0$7147_at_echo-01.iinet.net.au...
> Hello,
>
> On installation Orcale happely accepted the "HOST = print server", but now
> doesn't allow me to change the HOST using Net8 Assistant. I have since
> uninstalled Oracle, and then re-installed it. Only to get the same HOST
 name
> again. Do you know whether the HOST name is a allowed to have a space in
 it?
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
> Peter
>
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 01 2000 - 01:08:29 CST