Oracle names is actually a very stable software and it works very nice. I have very good experience with that product. As for LDAP, it's huge, incompatible, hard to administer and you must have 9iAS. It doesn't work with iPlanet, weblogic or websphere.It's a proprietary LDAP if such thing exists. The other thing that would be even simpler is hostnaming. Name your database
same as the host (service_names and global_dbname in listener.ora), put it on the port 1521 and enjoy. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are starting a project that will eventually have 500 laptops wandering around in the wild. These will have an Access database for untethered use, and will periodically connect to Oracle via Net8 to resynchronize itself. The idea of changing 500 tnsnames.ora files sometime down the line is daunting. I've been studying for the OCP Net8 exam, and they mention Oracle Names. 1. Are any of you using the Oracle Names? 2. Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is it difficult? 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another single point of failure. 4. Oracle hinted that Oracle Names is going away in favor of LDAP. Is this imminent, or just a scare tactic? I had held off using Names because of this, but the company has made a commitment to MS Active Directory, which I gather from the list postings isn't very compatible with Oracle's LDAP. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Gogala, Mladen INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
