Re: 11.2.0.2: Why is the local listener listening on public ip?
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: horvathjozsef@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:27:56 +0000
Am I alone in not understanding the explanation (its been a loong weekend).
surely the vip is only an IP address. Why can't previous clients connect to
a listener on a VIP?
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jozsef Horvath <horvathjozsef@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Interesting enought that I have just had a conversation with colleagues
> about this a couple of days ago.
> Briefly: (extracted from Oracle Metalink note 220970.1)
> "Why does netca always creates the listener which listens to public ip and
> not VIP only? This is for backward compatibility with existing clients:
> consider pre-10g to 10g server upgrade. If we made upgraded listener to only
> listen on VIP, then clients that didn't upgrade will not be able to reach
> this listener anymore. "
>
> Hope this helps.
> --Jozsef
>
>
> On 8 November 2010 14:59, fmhabash <fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This is what i got from the default install. the local listeners are
>> listening on the node vip and public ip. Do we know why?and is it a good
>> practice to remove the public ip?
>>
>> Thank you.
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