FW: Backup Address

Sorry, it looks like ADDRESS LIST does work. It is just that it takes about 2 minutes before it recognizes that the first one failed before it tries the second one. Any ideas how to speed that up. I am assuming it is some kind of "timeout" feature dealing with Pinging an IP address; (maybe at the UNIX level?)

Wayne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bellefeuille, Wayne S
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:51 AM
> To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity. Com (E-mail)
> Subject: Backup Address
>
> We have the following situation here. On an AIX SP I need to connect
> from one SP node (that just has the Oracle client) to another SP node
> (that has the Oracle database). There are actually three IP addresses
> I can put in the "client's" tnsnames.ora; one that uses the normal
> backbone, one that uses a "highspeed switch", and one that uses the
> external IP address. Normally I use the normal backbone IP address,
> but sometimes that goes down, which causes a TNS error (of course).
>
> What I am looking for is a way to list multiple ADDRESSes in
> tnsnames.ora and have it do the following:
> If the normal backbone fails, try the highspeed switch IP address.
> And if the highspeed switch IP address fails, us the external IP
> address.
>
> I tried using ADDRESS LIST in tnsnames.ora, but if I put the normal
> backbone IP address first and the normal backbone is down, then it
> doesn't try the next one.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Wayne

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