"Jeffrey Yee" <jeffyee_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> > "Jeffrey Yee" <jeffyee_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > Relocating a database might also involve changes to the hostname. But
> > > that is beside the point. Customer prefer to see the IP address for
> > > some reason, and it would be a shame that OEM cannot cater for such
> > > trivia stuff. It's just the label of the node.
> >
> >
> > What happens if you don't have a DNS entry for that server at all? I
haven't
> > tried this but it maybe that OEM would revert to using the IP Address in
> > this case.
> >
> I'm very keen to try this out, but I heard from my colleagues that
> host file in windows 2000 is cached, and changes to the host file will
> not take effect immediately. Any idea how I do I refresh the cache?
> If this is successful, and than I put back the DNS entry, and do a
> refresh node, wonder if this will change the IP address back to
> hostname. I will try it, once I figure out the cache issue.
run ipconfig /flushdns at a command prompt.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Jeffrey Yee" <jeffyee_at_hotmail
Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 10:34:29 CDT
