Re: ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor

old dirtbeard wrote:
<snip>

> ORCL =
> (DESCRIPTION =
> (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = IOMORACLE.marshall.usc.edu)(PORT =
> 1521))
> (CONNECT_DATA =
> (SERVER = DEDICATED)
> (SERVICE_NAME = orcl)
> )
> )
>

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Congratulations! You just exposed your db to the world! I timed out trying to reach it, but think that might have been the firewall at my end. RULE: *NEVER* expose a fully qualified host name or IP address when posting your TNSNAMES. While we need details and exact cut-n-paste text for most problem solving we generally don't need host names or IP addresses or passwords. These should always be masked.

A few years ago, someone made the same mistake, but their domain was '.mil'. Quite a furor that he had exposed a database on a military computer. When called on it, he was rather blithe about it, claiming we didn't have enough information to do anything, whereupon another participant promptly demonstrated that we *did* have enough information.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server/browse_frm/thread/56e1f0cd01f7e3bb Received on Thu Oct 05 2006 - 08:23:20 CDT