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: “@#”&%!?”