It happens once at startup, runs through your connection list. If you hit 'refresh' in the connection toolbar, it will do so again. So as a contract employee you might be assigned to multiple clients. You're afraid if you're doing work for clientA that SQL Developer will TNSPing clientB's instance - violating your agreement? I imagine clientB would be on a different network/VPN though, and you'd never get to them anyway? Trying to imagine folks that have databases open on the internet or VPNs that span customer sites? Jeff On 4/9/2013 10:32 AM, Hans Forbrich wrote: > Need clarification because in some customer/contractor environments that > encourage BYOD, I may be trying to access non-local systems, > inadvertently violating customer policy. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l