Re: Oracle Names and DNS

I have many Oracle Names entries with the explicit address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and no dns entry - they work fine.. ( it may not be best practice, but we had to accommodate some older netware servers that did not do DNS lookup very well)..

Sybrand Bakker <oradba_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

>On 5 Dec 2001 10:03:34 -0800, burdakov_at_vesco.ru (Aleksey Burdakov)
>wrote:
>
>>Some questions concerned with Oracle Names 8.1.7:
>>
>>In case a networks with a NT server has no domain defined for it, and
>>has no DNS service, what should I place in Oracle configuration files
>>in order to make the Oracle Names Service work ?
>>
>>How should I configure Net8 8.1.7 client ? Should I place "world"
>>instead of the domain name ? If I get it right, in the case when DNS
>>is absent, a client could not automatically find Names Server via DNS,
>>and I have to explicitly define it providing NT server name and
>>default port 1575.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Aleksey Burdakov
>
>If you don't have a DNS domain and no DNS service, you should setup
>lmhosts on a server and use the appropiate directives on the clients
>lmhosts to import the server lmhosts
>The lmhosts file is located in %WINNT%\system32\drivers\etc
>Further instructions are in the file.
>You *must* use *any* dns mechanism with Oracle Names, as it won't
>allow you to store hardcoded ip-addresses.
>The client won't find any Oracle Names servers if they are not defined
>in the names.preferred_servers section in sqlnet.ora
>
>Hth
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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