DNS and service name

From: andy <news_at_info-line.it>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:46:55 GMT
Message-ID: <3bd7cf38.4814272@news.cis.dfn.de>

I use an Oracle database 8i on a Windows 2000 server. The server hasn't installed active directory and hasn't installed DNS server. The server is a stand-alone server and isn't join to a domain on the network.
Suppose my server is called host and complete name is host.test.local. From a client if i ping the host name (HOST) will be ok. From Net8 Assistant i've configured a service name with host name=HOST. If i test the service i receive an error like 'target host does not exist'. Modifying the hosts file on client in this way: ip address HOST.test.local

that's ok.
Why Net8 doesn't resolve host name?

Any ideas?

Best regards.
Andy. Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 03:46:55 CDT