I did check gsd. The practice in our shop is to always keep gsd (as well as oc4j) down. But `crsctl stat resource' indicated it was up so I stopped it (with `crsctl stop resource ora.gsd', not `gsdctl stop', which would only remove the pid file). But named is still there. It comes from /usr/sbin/named anyway, which is part of bind according to `rpm -qf /usr/sbin/named'. Yong Huang --- On Tue, 4/24/12, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Remote "Local Address" of netstat and SCAN listener and VIP on different hosts To: yong321@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:53 AM The short answer to your question is I have no idea and agree with your analysis. The named process though makes me wonder if gns is in use here and if so if that is relevant. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l