Your Servername is getting resolved against some naming service = (probably DNS) or could be host file or NIS or NIS+ try nornal ping of servername and check what is the IP it is resolving = at. Ask ur network admin to change the entry in the DNS. Regards Irfan Khan -----Original Message----- From: Rajesh Puneyani [mailto:rajpuneyani@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 4:08 AM To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [askdba] Re: Strange Problem with TNSPING Hi all, I did not get any response on that so I was wondering if it is too stupid a question to be answered. Pls tell me why the following problem is happening. Thanks Rajesh On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:28:21 -0400, Rajesh Puneyani <rajpuneyani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, >=20 > I have this very strange problem with TNSPING. >=20 > My tnsnames.ora file had IP Address (rather than server names) > hardcoded for databases and now those IP Address are changed (but > server names remain the same) and I have changed those old IP > Addresses to SERVER NAMES. >=20 > But now when I TNSPING those databases then it is still trying to > resolve the database alias from old IP Address and it is not picking > up the SERVER name. >=20 > = -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------- > Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias > Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION =3D (ADDRESS_LIST =3D (ADDRESS =3D > (PROTOCOL =3D TCP)(HOST =3D xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)(PORT =3D 1521))) = (CONNECT_DATA > =3D (SERVER =3D DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME =3D GLIDEV))) >=20 > Here xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the old IP address > = -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -------------------------------- >=20 > Am I missing something here ? Is there anything cached that I needed = to clear ? >=20 > Thanks and Regards >