On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:38 +0100, Giovanni Cuccu wrote: > Hi, > IIRC I had the same problem and it was a client issue. > I was using a tnsnames.ora entry with 2 IP addresses, when the client > load balancer put me on a busy node the server tried to redirect me on > the other one. It was doing so returning the host name of the other > node. That network name was unknow in my PC so I was getting the same > error you are facing. Since the db was at a customer site and was not > listed by our internal dns the simplest solution was to add the > hostnames to my hosts file. > hope it helps, > Giovanni Hi and thanks! When I did add the hostname to my /etc/hosts it worked as it should (only had IP in my tnsnames.ora) /Johan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l