Re: "Long" hostnames, Oracle 9+10 and HP-UX

From: Uwe Küchler <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Paul McManus <Paul.McManus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:09:56 +0100

Paul,

luckily we're completely RAC-agnostic at this site, so this will not be
an issue. But I'm interested in your findings, anyway - I do RAC on
other sites.

Kind regards,
Uwe
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Am 05.11.2010 20:32, schrieb Paul McManus:
> May not help but I remember running into issues with the early stages
> of a 10g R2 RAC installation where hostnames had hyphens present.
> After they were changed to underscores the installation went without a
> hitch - will dig through notes to see if it was based on real facts or
> a hunch
>  
> PMcM
>  
> >Hello Niall,
> >you mean the hyphen character in the host name? I thought so, too and
> >tried to find some documentation or other pointers to support my
> >thoughts - especially when trying to argue with Ops. But so far I
> >haven't found anything on MOS that goes like "don't use hyphens in
> >hostnames".
>
> >The only trouble we have so far is our own admin tool (DB with APEX),
> >that cannot create tables using the host name when there's a hyphen in
> >it (not allowed for Oracle object names).
>
> >Best regards,
> >Uwe
>
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