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		<title>Old MetaLink link to be Retired</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old MetaLink URL will be retired. You can no longer access MetaLink via metalink.oracle.com. Oracle Global Customer Support is pleased to announce that later this year My Oracle Support will be upgraded to enable even more Oracle customers to use Oracle&#8217;s next generation support platform, and Classic MetaLink will be retired. My Oracle Support [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we needed a was to performa DNS query from inside an Oracle database.  Low and behold Oracle already has a function for that.  The utility is called UTL_INADDR. Beautiful little utility. Here are the examples I sent to the people that needed them. SELECT utl_inaddr.get_host_name(&#8217;68.180.206.184&#8242;) from dual; SELECT utl_inaddr.get_host_address(&#8216;yahoo.com&#8217;) FROM dual;]]></description>
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