Hello all, We recently had an issue where clients were taking 8 minutes to login to the database; the primary OID server (server1 below) was down at the time, the secondary was up. What are your thoughts in terms of them being able to login after 7-8 minutes? Did the secondary pick up, or did they revert to the tnsnames? Where is the failover time configured on the server side? I know we can trace/test, but I'm hoping someone here knows off the top of their head. Here's a snippet of our config: Sqlnet.ora: NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH=(LDAP,TNSNAMES) Ldap.ora DIRECTORY_SERVERS=(server1:389:636,server2:389:636) DIRECTORY_SERVER_TYPE = OID Thanks- Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l