With server side load balancing you can control the ip that is returned to the client by setting the local listener parameter. If you put the vip there (or in the tnsnames alias to which you are referring to) the vip ip will be returned to the client. This is also best practice as in case of a node failure the client will benefit from faster failover. Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yechiel Adar Sent: maandag 15 november 2010 7:07 To: fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle L Subject: Re: 11.2.0.2: Why is the local listener listening on public ip? It is not a good practice to remove the public IP from the listener. It will cause connections to fail. When the RAC decide that one server is overloaded and the connection has to be handled by another node, it returns to the client with the public IP of the new node, and tell the client to connect to this IP. So you put only the VIP in the tnsnames, but let the listener to accept connections on public IP. Yechiel On 08/11/2010 16:59, fmhabash 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. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l