Re: Oracle Names restriction?

Hi Joe,

I completely agree with you. Yet, things already got out of hand: database names are not unique currently.
Actually the tnsnames.ora is a mess. What they have been doing (and I and others seem to have inherited) is composing the servicename from database_name.node_name.domain_name
Of course, as far as Oracle is concerned the node_name.domain_name string is the domain.
db_domain in init<sid>.ora is world everywhere and presto. And all of that mess has been generated according to comments with Net8 Assistant, while there are no Oracle 8 production databases. Painful decisions will have to be made anyway/anyhow

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Joe Kazimierczyk wrote in message <374AD67F.B9E835A8_at_bms.com>...
>Netman domains necessarily have to match your DNS domains. And, depending
on
>how you handle administration of your databases and Netman network
>definitions, you might not want to use domains at all. Ie, if you manage
>everything from one group, and can insure your database names are unique,
it
>seems simpler to use a single domain called 'world'. Also known as the
flat
>naming model. Either way, in Netmans' listener/addresses/host field, you
>should be able to type anything, including dashes. We use IP addresses
>instead of the actual hostname to save a tiny bit of overhead.
>
>
>sybrandb_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> We are currently trying to setup a names server under Oracle 7.3.4 on
>> Solaris. The problem that did arise however, was that age-old 16-bit
>> Oracle Network Manager. It doesn't seem to accept hyphens (-) in the
>> domain name, while DNS does accept them (whole company is running on
>> it, so no way, Jose, to have that one changed).
>> The only workaround I could think of is replace the hyphens by
>> underscores, save the Names definition in a database and -behind the
>> scenes- update the Names tables. Questions:
>> -do I need to do anything more (probably I need to regenerate all
>> checkpoint files)
>> -is there a more recent version of Oracle in which this restriction has
>> been lifted, or are there other ways to configure Oracle Names.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>>
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Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 12:46:39 CDT