Changing ONAMES enrtries fiasco

Hey all,

I want to make changes to the ONAMES region database (8.0.5.0.1 on OpenVMS) entries because I didn't fully qualify the host names in the network aliases. And now that I can VPN in to work (thanks to DirecTV DSL!), I can't use ONAMES because my machine at home is in a different IP domain.

After going round with Oracle Support because they thought I wanted to default domain the alias instead of the IP host, they say that the only way to change an existing ONAMES alias is to drop and recreate it. EEEEW! So, I've experimented with directly modifying the rows of the ONRS_REGION table in the region database with some success. e.g. I've changed this:

(DATA_LIST=(FLAGS=0x1)(DATA=(TYPE=a.smd.)(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL
= TCP)(HOST = myhost)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = mysid)))))

to this:

(DATA_LIST=(FLAGS=0x1)(DATA=(TYPE=a.smd.)(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL
= TCP)(HOST = myhost.qtiworld.com)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = mysid)))))

...in the aforementioned table and reloaded the primary and secondary ONAMES servers with "NAMESCTL RELOAD". A 9iR2 "tnsping" using ONAMES for names resolution proved that the new address was used successfully.

Has anyone else done this change safely and successfully in a production environment? I'm not able to reproduce the production Oracle Networking environment, so I can't really make a valid test area.

TIA!

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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