Very cool! Thanks Jared, I wasn't aware of that. -Mark From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:25 AM To: Bobak, Mark Cc: cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 10g - Sqlnet and redundant oid servers On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: Second, would be something like Oracle clusterware. A third option: http://www.inlab.de/balance.html I have not yet implemented this in production, but do plan to when I get time to finish documenting the test and implementation. It is simple to use, this line will send OID queries to ororaldap02 should 01 be down: balance 389 ororaldap01:390 ! ororaldap02:390 It is not however a clustering or failover technology. Should the server that balance is running on go down completely, then you will still not have a server. Still, it is better than depending on the TCP timeout, which is useless. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com