A collegue called me yesterday.
Collegue: “Hi, I cannot acces a customer database, it’s urgent. Can you help me?”
Me: “Did you ever connect to the database?”
Collegue: “Off course, but last monday netadmins reconfigured a router: that’s when the problem started.”
Me: “Reconfigured what?
Collegue: “A router: the router lost the config.”
I tried the connection to the database: network timeout received.
Me: “Can the customer connect from his network?”
Collegue: “Yes, it doesn’t work only from our network.”
Me: “Is there a NAT?”
Collegue: “Yes, the real address is different.”
Me: “Is the db server running Windows”?
Collegue: “I forgot! It’s a Windows NT.”
Me: “Mmh, I should ask netadmins. Perhaps you can workaround putting “USE_SHARED_SOCKET” in the registry… Is the release at least 9i?”
Collegue: “It’s a 7.3″
Me: “@#”&%!?”
Tags: nt, Oracle, use_shared_socket
Just wanted to say HI. I found your blog a few days ago on Technorati and have been reading it over the past few days.
Hi! You posted the first comment on my blog, thanks! I’ll try to write something every now an then… even if my English is not really mother tongue! I have few time but so much to write about…