PRVF-4657 : Name resolution setup check for “db-scan” (IP address: x.x.x.101) failed

A quick note about an error I faced while running root.sh on an Exadata machine. The configuration tools failed with the following error: Error is PRVF-4657 : Name resolution setup check for "db-scan" (IP address: x.x.x.101) failed I did nslookup on the scan name and it all seemed good. So why the error ? After spending another 5 minutes, I looked at /etc/hosts and there was it. Someone had populated /etc/hosts of DB nodes with all the hostnames entries including the scan name. Something like: ...

September 25, 2020 at 7:41 PM · 1 min · 145 words · Amardeep Sidhu