Question about listener configuration

From: music4 <music4_at_163.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:32:06 +0800
Message-ID: <c334kr$l50@netnews.proxy.lucent.com>

Greetings,

My question is about listener.ora configuration. In listener.ora, we configure such lines:

LISTENER=
  (DESCRIPTION_LIST =
    (DESCRIPTION =
        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = svr1)(PORT = 1521))     )
  )

The HOST attribute define hostname or a IP address on which listener to listen.

But according to my TCP/IP programming experience, when we develop a socket server, we don't have to specify a certain IP address to bind, we can just use ADDR_ANY, so that if the host machine has multi ip address (on different network segment), the socket server can listen on all IP address.

I am wondering if this can be applied to listener.ora configuration. I mean I only specify something like "(HOST = ANY_ADDR)", so that listner can listen all IP address.

Thanks in advance!

Evan Received on Sun Mar 14 2004 - 20:32:06 CST