The TNS host is up an running. I can connect to the intended database from my local machine. The listener on the oracle host is definitely up and running
Also, The ports are correct in the file.
I want to make sure there is no setting that I am not aware of blocking the communication between the UNIX and the oracle host.
Thanks for the help - sri
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so, we finally found the issue ... The linux SA had the vip address running on 2 nodes . it should have been listed on a single node
we were soo busy looking at the client side settings, that we missed the server side settings
Thanks for the response - Sri