the hostname in tnsnames is not set to localhost probably so DNS lookup
fails since you plugged the cable out.
"Alain Migeon" <agm_at_dk.rovsing> wrote in message
news:MPG.19b976d39ff3d58a989682_at_news.cybercity.dk...
> Hi
>
> I have, on a Win2000 machine, an Oracle database, version 8.1.7. On the
> same machine, I have a server connecting to this database.
>
> I start my server which connect at start up to Oracle. Everything is
> working fine, and then if some network problems occur (I just unplug the
> network cable to reproduce the error), I got the ORA-12571 error
> (TNS:packet writer failure), followed by the ORA-03114 (not connected to
> ORACLE).
>
> Since my database and my server are on the same machine, why do I get
> this error?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Alain
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 09:33:57 CDT
