reverse mapping, was WAKEUPANDTAKECARE

Mon May 14 13:44:17 UTC 2001

> Sorry, but this is just 100% wrong.  I've set up Oracle on many boxes and you
> don't need any DNS at all to set up an oracle DB.  In fact, I tell our DBA's
> to use IP addresses in their TNSNAMES.ORA files because I don't want the DB
> depending on DNS.
> 
> --Adam


	So... you'd rather type in the address
		3ffe:801:bbc4:873d:2d0:b7ff:fee8:c4d9
	than the name  
		fedb.example.com?

	More power to you.

--bill