All, Oracle 9.2.0.6, Solaris 2.9. The user did login from remore host and I could see the correct host name in V$session however dba_audit_session.userhost shows value of "1" as below. select count(*) from dba_audit_session COUNT(*) ---------- 44 1 row selected select distinct userhost from dba_audit_session; USERHOST ------------------------------------------------ 1 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l