On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:40:26AM +0000, hrishy wrote: > When i do a tnsping to the service name in a shell script the listener > responds in like 3500 secs ocassionally. > Where do i start troubleshooting this issue ? If it were me I'd use tcpdump first to see what the differential on the packet delivery looked like. tcpdump is unintrusive and that is why I would start there. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l