by Steve,
Sounds like you need to set multiple Oracle Names servers with default
timeouts to avoid spinning.
Chris.
> Does anyone have a good way to distribute tnsnames.ora files to all
> clients on the network as well as the unix servers? I wanted to have a
> central place that would hold the master copy of our tnsnames file. As
> I update it, I want to have both a daily job to push it out to other
> unix servers and I want to push it out to NT clients on the network.
> I've thought of having a common network drive mapped and have all
> clients point to it, but the single point of failure trashed that
> idea. The other was to have it copied over each time the client logs
> in.
> By the way, we use Oracle Names now and we've had a few instances of
> it "spinning" and not handling requests and keeping clients from
> accessing the databases. I want to have a backup available.
> Does anyone have a better idea???
> Thanks,
> Steve