Thanks Matt, no worries, I understood the first time. That was a masterful bit of sleuthing Matt, you nailed it. The IP for sherlock was set to 127.0.0.1 in sherlock:/etc/hosts. Reset it to 192.168.1.101, restart the listener, all is well. Thanks, I hope this has been burned into my memory now. :) Jared On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:58:52 -0500, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Erm, I just realized that one of the last sentences in that paragraph > was gibberish. I should have said, "I bet if you check the /etc/hosts > file on sherlock, that the name 'sherlock' will be mapped to 127.0.0.1 > rather than 192.168.1.101" > > Thanks, > Matt > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l