Re: Listener.ora DNS or IP?

If the server IP changes, any client connection using the old IP will fail. So the client should change to using DNS name or the new IP.

Caveat: If the server has more than one network card, thus potentially more than one IP associated with it's DNS entry, the listener binds only to the first IP returned by DNS. The client connection fails whenever DNS returned the IP which the listener isn't bound to.

If the server has one network card, and one IP associated with it's DNS entry, there shouldn't be any problems using DNS name on both the client and server.

"Smith, Ron L." wrote:
>
> We are changing the IP address of our production server. I would like to
> take the opportunity to change
> the Listener.ora to the DNS name instead of IP address. My question is, if
> I change the IP address in
> the listener to a DNS name today and the clients are still using the IP
> address, will the listener work
> properly? Will it resolve either way?
>
> Ron
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