From: fvanbortel@netscape.net   
      
   Patrick Dean Rusk wrote:   
   > I've installed Oracle 10g on my development Windows XP Professional laptop,   
   > which has both Ethernet and Wireless networking using DHCP on both. In the   
   > process of installing and creating a sample database, it brings up 3 or 4   
   > dialogs about not being able to find the IP address of the machine, to which   
   > I click the button to use the default value.   
   >   
   > In the end, it creates listeners and databases that hard-code the IP address   
   > of my machine, which is a temporary address assigned by DHCP. This,   
   > naturally, is useless to me.   
   >   
   > Does anyone know how I can get it to use the machine or DNS name of my   
   > laptop?   
   >   
   > Patrick Rusk   
   >   
   >   
      
   replace IP address by "localhost" (w/o the quotes)   
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   Regards,   
   Frank van Bortel   
      
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