On you laptop you can install DUAL DHCP DNS server to run as a service. You configure it to connect to the local DNS for passthru requests, and it ALSO reads your hosts file to deliver them as DNS lookups :) Love this tool for lab stuff. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-dns-server/ Chris On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > This is not for production. I am doing some practice installs so I can > mess with RAC in a lab environment at work. These test servers don't have > SCAN IPs and SAs don't have time to set them up. > > When I do the laptop RAC installs such as > http://www.lab128.com/rac_installation_using_vb/article_text.html > > We just put the SCAN IPs into the hostfile, but its generally considered a > bad idea. I can still get the install to work if I do that right? > > no apps will connect to it. I need to do a large number of RAC and Data > Guard installs in a short time in the future. Place I work has alot of > scripts and standards to follow that are in several docs. I want to do some > trial runs to put alot of their scripts together, get a response file for > silent installs, etc... done, so when I have to do it for real, its less of > a hassle. So this is just for me. >