DBA survival BLOG » use_shared_socket http://www.ludovicocaldara.net/dba Keep DBA job simple. Thanks. Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:06:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sometimes they come back http://www.ludovicocaldara.net/dba/sometimes-they-come-back/ http://www.ludovicocaldara.net/dba/sometimes-they-come-back/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:08:31 +0000 Ludovico http://www.ludovicocaldara.net/dba/?p=20 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: “@#”&%!?”

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