Oracle 8i Installation Problem : Throw when ip cannot be determind

From: BadApple_at_serpent.garden.edu <sameer_taiwade_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 10 Jul 2003 01:49:51 -0700
Message-ID: <3d687e8e.0307100049.11ace43b@posting.google.com>

Hi all

FYI ... I have a Solaris 7 server .I had faced problems while installing Oracle 8.1.7
The error was "Thrown when ip cannot be determined " options give were retry ,ignore continue cancle .When I clicked on retry ,same error. On clicking on continue the install would continue but the oracle never communicated with listener .

I found from the group that it could be due to gethostname () function failing to get hostname ...

(Ping hostname would work fine . network was setup ok every thing seemed ok)

I tried to write a C script to run gethostname() .. it failed .

Later I just added the entry <hostname>.<domain> in my DNS and rebooted the server . Ran the install ,it went through without errors ...

Thanx and Regards
BadApple Received on Thu Jul 10 2003 - 03:49:51 CDT