Cause: The listener on the remote node cannot be contacted.
Action: Perform these steps:
Verify that the ADDRESS in the tnsnames.ora file and the listener.ora file is correct.
Verify that the listener on the remote node has been started. Enter:
lsnrctl
LSNRCTL> STATUS [listener_name]
listener_name is the name of the listener defined in the listener.ora file. It is not necessary to identify the listener if you are using the default listener, named LISTENER.
If the output indicates the listener is not running, try starting it with the command:
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ORA-12545
This error occurs when the client computer tries to look up the hostname of the database server (for example dbp.banner.mcgill.ca) to get its IP address. The lookup is failing.
In most cases we have seen, the results are wrong because an old Domain Name Server (DNS), no longer kept current, is still available and many PCs around campus are still pointing to it. It is incorrectly reporting that the Banner database server does not exist. Since the old DNS works fine for most other addresses, users have not realized there was a problem until now.
The solution is to change the client computer's TCP/IP properties to point to the correct DNS addresses. Typically only two addresses should be listed: one for the primary DNS, and one for the secondary (alternate) DNS:
132.206.44.21
132.216.44.21
Different computers/operating systems have different dialogs for changing this. The general approach is:
Edit the Properties of Network Neighborhood (known as "My Network Places" in Windows 2000).
Navigate/drill down until you find the TCP/IP protocol, and edit its Properties. (If there are several TCP/IP entries found, ignore anything which refers to dial-up access or AOL. Hopefully only one possibility will remain.)
Add/Edit/Remove/Move entries as appropriate, until only the two IP addresses listed above remain.
Re-boot the machine if prompted to do so.
Banner should now work properly.
Another possible cause
The ORA-12545 error can also occur if other TCP/IP properties are improperly configured, so that TCP/IP itself is not working. In that case, no IP communication will work (e.g. Web browsing). Fixing it is in the LAN manager's domain and will not be further discussed here.