Friday, January 11, 2019

FATAL: OCI listening thread exited. Failed to get IP address of host.

I am getting an error in the connection log when I am trying to connect to RAC database server


BLABLA(devel): sqlplus user/password@MY_TNS_NAME 

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Fri Jan 11 14:11:21 2019

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

FATAL: OCI listening thread exited. Failed to get IP address of host.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP,
Advanced Analytics, Real Application Testing and Unified Auditing options

SQL>


As the name suggests sqlplus is not able to determine the IP address of local machine and showing this error.

It looks like it is a warning and can be fixed very easily by adding the hostname and the IP address in the /etc/hosts file.

Once it is done then I tried connecting and it is fixed.

BLABLA(devel): sqlplus user/password@MY_TNS_NAME    

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Fri Jan 11 14:13:19 2019

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP,
Advanced Analytics, Real Application Testing and Unified Auditing options

SQL> 

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