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From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: 10g server won't start on XP
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:36:44 +0200
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Jeff C wrote:
> EdStevens wrote:
> 
>>Looks from your services that the db itself is ok.  What does the
>>alert.log say?
> 
> 
> I can't find any file *alert.log anywhere...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>You have your listener configured for s specific IP address??  And this
>>is on your home computer?  Where do you get your IP address?  DHCP and
>>assigned by you ISP?  If so, you're probably not running under the same
>>IP address as when you first set up. I believe that would be consistent
>>with the TNS- error msgs in your listener log.
> 
> 
> This may be promising.  Yes, I am using DHCP. I notice a certain
> ip addr hard coded in tnsnames.ora (and listener.ora) blah.101 and
> today I note my ip addr seems to be blah.102.  Maybe I was just
> luck in the past and always got assigned the same address? Anyway,
> I can edit those files and change the address, but I would sure
> hate to have to do that every day....
> 
> --Jeff
> 
So, don't use tcpip! Not if client and server are on one machine! See
http://vanbortel.blogspot.com/2005/05/enterprise-security-ii-finishing.html,

but beware: http://vanbortel.blogspot.com/2005/05/watch-out.html

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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