I tried host=localhost on some test boxes and clients could not connect.
Next I'll try host = 127.0.0.1 (7.4 on Sun 2.6)
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hillman, Alex [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:02 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: LSNRCTL Password
>
> Downside only if you want to have listener on different box - maybe for
> load
> balancing.
>
> Alex Hillman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hillman, Alex
>
>
>
> Neat trick., hadn't thought of that.
>
> Any downsides to using localhost?
>
> Jared
>
>
> On Thursday 10 May 2001 14:52, Hillman, Alex wrote:
> > This is why I now use localhost instead of hostname.
> >
> > Alex Hillman
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:26 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > >Could you explain please how somebody with DBA provileges on
> > >another node
> > >can shutdown listener on another node without logging as user
> > >of the node
> > >where listener is running.
> >
> > I fully agree with Jared. We encountered this when I duplicated the Prod
> > server (including the SQL*net config file) onto a Test box and bounced
> the
> > test box. The listener.ora file contains the name of the Prod server and
> > the automatic stop/start script executed a 'lsnrctl stop' as part of
> > shutdown - this sent a STOP signal to the identified host (the Prod
> > server). This stopped the listener on another system!!
> >
> > It is quite easy to test this out - you can create a dummy listener.ora
> on
> > the Prod box, point that to the Dev box and stop the listener from
> Prod...
> >
> > Hth,
> > John Kanagaraj
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