Re: oracle10g tools long time startup & network problem

Tomasz Wrzodak wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with very long time startup of oracle tools like dbca,
> netmgr etc. on WinXp pro. I have two net interfaces - local net and
> external with dhcp. It's ok when I disable second of them. It looks like
> DNS problem, but I can't find a reason. The firewall is disabled.
>
> I checked connections by tnsping, typing local and external ip as
> parameter, and it's ok. EZConnect method resolves the aliases with no
> problem.
>
> There's no problem with sqlplus - I can connect immediately.
>
> Also I must wait for a long time already after startup of Network
> Manager, when I clicked for a first time on "Service Naming" node.
>
> Maybe it's a problem with DNS suffix - allocated from dhcp. I can't ping
> hostname.this_suffix, so i added '127.0.0.1 hostname.suffix' to
> /win_dir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts, but without any effect.
>
> I installed Oracle 10g with disabled both net interfaces. I remember
> there was an info about problem with recognizing IP address or something
> like that.
>
> I droped and created database and it works ok until I restarted system.
>
> I have no idea how to resolve this problem. Anyone can help?
> Thanks

You need to use the machine's fully qualified name or IP address. 127.0.0.1 is meaningless.

Additionally ... you must disable DHCP. Oracle servers MUST have a fixed IP address.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)