In short, I don't. I use local resolution (as our ONS is frequently down and
unreliable) and none of my aliases have domain names attached to them. In my
sqlnet.ora, the entries about default domain, etc. are all commented out.
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Jon Walthour, OCDBA
Oracle DBA
Computer Horizons
Cincinnati, Ohio
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> The O'Reilly Net8 book states:
>
> "It's possible to run a Net8 network without using domains at all."
>
> If this is true, why create net service names that are qualified by a
domain
> name, why define a default domain in sqlnet.ora, etc.? What benefit do
you
> get by setting things up to use a domain?
>
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