I am getting my feet wet with RAC. Platform is Oracle 10g R2 on Windows 2000. I¹ve setup a 1-node test cluster, and now I¹m attempting to add a second node. However, when I try to create the listener on the new node, netca fails with the error below: ServiceAliasException: Could not initialize Service Alias: TNS-04404: no error caused by: oracle.net.config.ConfigException: TNS-04414: File error caused by: TNS-04612: Null RHS for "TCORE1.PCCI.EDU" "TCORE1" is the database instance on the first node. Following the instructions given in every piece of documentation I¹ve read so far, I ran netca on the new node, did a cluster configuration, and chose only the new node from the list. Thinking that something on node 1 might be causing the problem, I even dropped the listener from that node and attempted to create both at once from node 1, with the same results. So now I¹m getting the error on both nodes. I was able to setup and started the listeners manually, but I don¹t know how to register them with the clusterware so they can be controlled via srvctl. I¹ve got a TAR ? sorry, SR ? submitted to Oracle Support, but I was wondering if anyone in the Oracle community has seen this error and/or has an idea as to what I can do about it. --------------- Jason Heinrich Oracle Database Administrator Pensacola Christian College