You'll need to give at least a little more info - how about your connect string - X out the password. Without that I can't really think of how it can be connecting to a remote database without having a TNS names entry for it, but I'm no Oracle expert(although I have done my share of struggling through Oracle connections).
I don't believe this is a bug with DBI - DBI has been working well with Oracle for many moons. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com Gary Fletcher [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Can you help. > > I am running the latest version of DBI on Linux. The Linux server has 3 > Oracle 8.1.6 databases running on it. From perl CGI I am attempting to > connect to one of these databases. This is when strange things seem to be > hapenning. > > Instead of Connecting to the local database (dbname = bille, ORACLE_SID = > ORCL) DBI is connecting to another database on a remote server (dbname = > bille, ORACLE_SID = ORCL). I have checked and double checked tnsnames.ora > and the IP address entry for the local billie is correct and there is no > entry for the remote database. > > Is this a bug in DBI? If so is there a patch or a cunning way around this? > > Gary Fletcher > Senior Analyst Programmer > Ticscali UK > Work: 0870 7400977 > Mobile: 07764212838
