discovery

The process of locating Oracle Names servers. During discovery, one Oracle Names server is located. After the first one is discovered, the discovered Oracle Names server pings all other Oracle Names server in the administrative region. A list of Oracle Names servers is then created and saved to .sdns.ora on UNIX and sdns.ora on Windows platforms. This list is sorted in order of response time.

Discovery searches for the first Oracle Names server in the following order:

1. A preferred Oracle Names servers in the sqlnet.ora file

2. A well-known Oracle Names server

3. A local Oracle Names server configured with TCP/IP on port 1575

| See Also: Discover other Oracle Names Servers to discover Oracle Names servers.