Try pen for failover and load balancing (after a fashion). http://siag.nu/pen I'm using it to failover squid, LDAP, apache and SSH. The price is right! Bobak, Mark wrote: > > Which is why I have two LDAP servers behind a load balancer…. J > > > > Of course, load balancers cost money, but, fortunately, we had one > that was already on the floor that we could use. > > > > Jared, > > > > What does NAMES do to avoid the TCP timeout? How does it avoid that > problem? > > > > -Mark > > > > *From:* Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:01 PM > *To:* Bobak, Mark > *Cc:* genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: OID and tnsnames.ora > > > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi Gene, > > OID is a bear, and if all you want to do is use it for a > centralized repository for service name resolution, I strongly > recommend you look at: > http://www.shutdownabort.com/tnsmanager/ > > It will take about 30 minutes to set up, tops. It doesn't even > require installation of an Oracle client. > > I've been running it in all environments (dev, preprod, and prod) > for over a year. No problems, no hiccups, no crashes. > > > I still prefer SQL Names, too bad Oracle did away with it. > > Names had one very nice feature that LDAP based name resolvers do not > have: > If the primary names server goes down, requests will quickly go to the > secondary server. > > With an LDAP (OID and tnsmanager) based system, the failover occurs only > after the TCP timeout, which might be awhile, on the order of minutes. > > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > > -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ "I got a question for ya. Ya got a minute?" -- two programmers passing in the hall ++