Re: What's net got do with it

> I am somewhat familiar with the TNS stack. I have read through the
> documentation and can not find anything pertinent to my question. For
> example, the Oracle9i Net Services Administrator's Guide says:
> "The primary function of Oracle Net is to establish and maintain
> connections between a client application and an Oracle database
> server."
>
> But I am not calling FROM a client TO the database server. I am
> calling FROM the database server ( which is functioning as a client)
> to a NON TNS application, namely an apache web server.
>
> So, I'm still at a loss for why TNS should come into play when the
> target server knows nothing about TNS. Could it be that Oracle
> Network (TNS) is behaving as a proxy?
>
>

Your TNS error came from the client not the web server. The client did not receive a response after a specified amount of time. Received on Tue Jan 29 2008 - 21:58:50 CST