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Re: putting an alias in my tnsnames for a change to report server

From: Ryan Gaffuri <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: 3 Jul 2002 14:04:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1efdad5b.0207031304.68b4953a@posting.google.com>


spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow (Ed Stevens) wrote in message news:<3d22f243.176415341_at_ausnews.austin.ibm.com>...
> On 2 Jul 2002 10:49:30 -0700, rgaffuri_at_cox.net (Ryan Gaffuri) wrote:
>
> >I tried to add an alias to my tnsnames on both my oracle server and my
> >developer server. This is what I added. Its not working.....
> >
> >Per note: 139546.1 at the end under known issues. It says to add an
> >alias to my tnsnames to get around the issue with reports servers have
> >numbers, etc... in its name.
> >
> >Here is the part of the tnsnames.ora file that has the instance that
> >Im interested and what I added:
> >
> >APANDEV.MTMC.ARMY.MIL =
> > (DESCRIPTION =
> > (ADDRESS_LIST =
> > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 144.101.14.115)(PORT = 1521))
> > )
> > (CONNECT_DATA =
> > (SERVICE_NAME = apandev.mtmc.army.mil)
> > )
> > )
> >
> >myserver Rep60_HQ73-dev6i=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=HQ73-dev6i)(PORT
> >1521)
> >
> >
> >There are 4-5 others instances listed in this tnsnames.. the
> >
> >Rep60_HQ73-dev6i comes directly out of my registry. What did I do
> >wrong? It does not recognize this when I try to run the report with
> >run_report_object?
>
> The technical answer to your question has been answered. However, I would like
> to express some concern that you have exposed the IP address and other connect
> information of a military database. A good hacker (which I'm not) now knows the
> IP address, server DNS name, and listening port of a database server owned by
> the U.S. Army. Makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

try the IP address it wont work. Thanks for your concern. Received on Wed Jul 03 2002 - 16:04:45 CDT

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