I'm trying to resolve a question about Oracle 10g RAC on Solaris 10 and the use of /etc/hosts versus DNS. Specifically, I'm trying to find out which mechanism we can use for name/address resolution for the RAC- private interconnects (that is, the network connections reserved for RAC's use between the nodes in the cluster). If it matters we are not using any sort of clustering software except that which is part of 10g RAC itself.
I have one set of folks saying "DNS ought to be fine"; another group is saying "well, we've always used /etc/hosts, but we're willing to try using DNS instead"; a third group is saying "Oracle says don't use DNS"; one person in the third group is even saying it's dangerous to put those addresses in DNS. Who's a poor sysadmin to believe? We know that using /etc/hosts will work, but for lots of reasons we'd rather use DNS if at all possible. So, is anyone out there running Oracle 10g RAC, on Solaris 10, using DNS for all name/address resolution? Please, DO NOT respond with what ought to work, or speculations about what might work, or even why one way is better than the other. The *ONLY* answers I'm hoping to find are from folks who are using DNS as described above. OK, well, there's another answer I'd be interested to hear: If you're running 10g RAC on Solaris 10 and you tried to use DNS, had it fail, and then switched to using /etc/hosts and with *NO OTHER CHANGES* had it start working. Thanks, AdamM _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
