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Hmmm...
No takers yet?
Could it be that no one here has tried this?
On 11/6/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm investigating the use of NIS for database resolution.
>
> The 10g Net docs state that tns2nis can be used to transform a
> tnsnames.ora file into a format usable by NIS.
>
> There are however very few references to the tns2nis utility, and none
> of them are useful.
>
> The tns2nis utility is not installed with any options I can find, and
> it is not in any Oracle Home.
>
> This utility has been around for quite awhile, I think I saw a
> reference to it in Oracle 7 docs.
>
> I've opened an SR to ask about this, but that kind of SR doesn't get
> priority treatment.
>
> So, if you've ever used NIS to resolve database names, how did you go about it?
>
> How well did it (does it) work for you?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 12:20:17 CST
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