DEEDSD, We upgraded all our (5) Name Server databases to Oracle 9i. Work just fine. The OEM interface works as advertised. If you need to speak to our Oracle Names DBAs, drop a note to me offline. I will provide the contact names/phone numbers. Regards, - Kirti --- DEEDSD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Yes, I have tested that, and it works just fine. It looks like if you have > a 3rd party application that requires a certain release listener, different > listeners will be necessary. This took me by surprise a bit as previous > versions of Oracle have not behaved this way. > > It appears that the 10g client may have problems with older versions of > Oracle Names. We have 7.3 Oracle Names servers (names database is 8.1.7.4) > and the 10g client can't tnsping, SQL*Plus, etc using the old version of > Names. We haven't upgraded the names servers because the management > interface has been terrible every relase after 7.3.... > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------