Re: changing domain name

Cris Carampa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm reorganizing my company's network, so all the Oracle servers will be
> moved from domain mycompany.com to domain subzone.mycompany.com. IP
> addresses will remain the same.
>
> I'm wondering whether I must rename the global database names too, for
> example db1.mycompany.com -> db1.subzone.mycompany.com.
>
> My production server is 9.0.1/SUSE SLES7, then I have some test servers
> (9.2, 10.1 and 10.2) running on SLES8/SLES9 machines.
>
> Thank you. Kind regards,
>
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>
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> anche se allora vi siete assolti siete lo stesso coinvolti

It won't harm, and it is only one command per database (alter database rename global_name to ....)
but it isn't necessary, as Oracle doesn't perform any DNS lookup to check the validity of the domain. Ie: you can put anything there, as long it is consistent in your organization.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA