Hi all, Thanks everyone for responding..I have not been able to resolve it..I can ping the server by new IP address and by new servername but still...Anyhow I can got the work around and which is - Put another entry for that database (with a different alias though) with new IP address. For the time being, I am back online but will keep working on finding that cached entry. Thank you everyone. Regards On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:52:23 -0400, Irfan Khan <irfan.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Your Servername is getting resolved against some naming service = > (probably DNS) or could be host file or NIS or NIS+ > > try nornal ping of servername and check what is the IP it is resolving = > at. > > Ask ur network admin to change the entry in the DNS. > > Regards > Irfan Khan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajesh Puneyani [mailto:rajpuneyani@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:08 AM > To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [askdba] Re: Strange Problem with TNSPING > > Hi all, > > I did not get any response on that so I was wondering if it is too > stupid a question to be answered. > > Pls tell me why the following problem is happening. > Thanks > Rajesh > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:28:21 -0400, Rajesh Puneyani > <rajpuneyani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi guys, > >=20 > > I have this very strange problem with TNSPING. > >=20 > > My tnsnames.ora file had IP Address (rather than server names) > > hardcoded for databases and now those IP Address are changed (but > > server names remain the same) and I have changed those old IP > > Addresses to SERVER NAMES. > >=20 > > But now when I TNSPING those databases then it is still trying to > > resolve the database alias from old IP Address and it is not picking > > up the SERVER name. > >=20 > > = > -------------------------------------------------------------------------= > ------------------------------- > > Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias > > Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION =3D (ADDRESS_LIST =3D (ADDRESS =3D > > (PROTOCOL =3D TCP)(HOST =3D xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)(PORT =3D 1521))) = > (CONNECT_DATA > > =3D (SERVER =3D DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME =3D GLIDEV))) > >=20 > > Here xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the old IP address > > = > -------------------------------------------------------------------------= > -------------------------------- > >=20 > > Am I missing something here ? Is there anything cached that I needed = > to clear ? > >=20 > > Thanks and Regards > > > >