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Extreme Slowness on Oracle Database Connection

I have a remote Linux server and I want to connect to an Oracle database which is in another server, using ojdbc7 lib
When I try to connect directly to the database from my Windows PC, using the same client and ojdbc7 lib, I have reasonable connection time.
Now, when I want to connect through my linux server, I get extreme slowness, just in the connection time. . Once connected, the execution is OK.
I have read about adding -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom like in this post, but nothing happened.
What could I do to fix this delay in setting up a connection from linux?

Close, but no cigar: it's "file:///dev/urandom", or one of the variations, see eg. https://anirban-m.blogspot.com/2014/03/jdbc-connection-reset-error-java.html

I noticed you are using version 12.1.0.1.
There was an Oracle bug where JDBC connections could take excessive times because the data being sent required the listener to perform a DNS lookup for each connection and that could apparently be very slow for some reason.
The bug was fixed in 12.2 and there is a back-ported fix (patch) for 12.1.0.2.
In the meantime, try getting your Linux admin to go through the process of tuning DNS lookups on that server. E.g., tune /etc/resolv.conf or enable the name service cache daemon. I'm not really expert in Linux administration so I can't help you. But based on the problem and the version you are using, that's where I'd look.

JDBC connection refused: postgres / same machine

I know my message can seem a duplicate of another, but I don't think so. Tell me if I'm wrong.
I just finished a free software in Java/swing/postgresql. It was successfully tested on Windows and Linux.
Now I am trying to make the documentation of it, and I'm on the "Installing postgresql server" part of the documentation.
The problem is that I can't remember what I've done to make the application work with PostgreSQL (I know it's lame...).
The JDBC string is made this way in the code:
// Open the SQL Connection
m_sql_connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://"+m_postgresql_server_name+":"+m_postgresql_port_number+"/"+m_postgresql_database_name, "postgres", "<not empty>");
The facts:
I work on a Windows 7 machine 64 bit
The PostgreSQL server is running (I see the service Started)
The PostgreSQL server configuration seems OK
I use login: postgres / pass: in my JDBC string
I can make the queries I want with pgAdmin III and they work
The database server is on the same machine as the "*.jar" application file
The jar application works well on a Linux version and another Windows 7 32 bit machine (the development machine)
I disabled my antivirus (just in case...)
psql.exe works well (I could insert data with it)
Edit 1 -> JJF
- I just added postgresql.exe and pg_ctl.exe in the windows firewall, and checked Both checkboxes for each (Public and Home/Work(Private) )
Result: Same Error
Edit2 -> Hardik Patel
- Skype is already OFF
Edit 3 -> JJF
- After full stop of Windows Firewall, still the same problem
The error I get is this one:
Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections
I wonder if I don't have to "unlock" the postgres account to allow it to access data through JDBC.
Edit 4 - Horse with no name
- I replaced localhost by 127.0.0.1
- The port is the standard port 5432, validated with psql
- I tested the psql.exe (working) command line before trying the JDBC connection (not working)
- Still the same result...
Edit 5
- I am going to put some trace to see if i can get more information

Turn off skype if running because skype acquires same port. This trick helped me long time ago.

Check that Windows firewall is not blocking the port.

I corrected my problem by a workaround.
I changed the PostgreSQL listen port by 5433 and everything worked like a charm...
I think the original port is used by something else, or blocked by some security tool I could not find.

IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection

I am new to Oracle, and am trying to run a simple example code with Java, but am getting this error when executing the code.. I am able to start up the listener via CMD and am also able to run SQL Plus. Can anyone give me a hand and tell me what I might be doing wrong?
Update:
I am using JDBC.
Database is local, and I actually had it working but it stopped working just today. I'm not really sure why though. Would you mind giving me some procedures to follow by since I don't know much.

Either:
The database isn't running
You got the URL wrong
There is a firewall in the way.
(This strange error message is produced by Oracle's JDBC driver when it can't connect to the database server. 'Network adapter' appears to refer to some component of their code, which isn't very useful. Real network adapters (NICs) don't establish connections at all: TCP protocol stacks do that. It would have been a lot more useful if they had just let the original ConnectException be thrown, or at least used its error message and let it appear in the stack trace.)

I had the same problem, and this is how I fixed it.
I was using the wrong port for my connection.
private final String DB_URL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost:1521:orcll"; // 1521 my wrong port
go to your localhost
(my localhost address) : https://localhost:1158/em
login
user name
password
connect as --> normal
Below 'General' click on LISTENER_localhost
look at you port number
Net Address (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1522))
Connect to port 1522
Edit you connection
change port 1521 to 1522.
done

Another thing you might want to check that the listener.ora file matches the way you are trying to connect to the DB. If you were connecting via a localhost reference and your listener.ora file got changed from:
HOST = localhost
to
HOST = 192.168.XX.XX
then this can cause the error that you had unless you update your hosts file to accommodate for this. Someone might have made this change to allow for remote connections to the DB from other machines.

I figured out that in my case, my database was in different subnet than the subnet from where i was trying to access the db.

I had this error when i renamed the pc in the windows-properties. The pc-name must be updated in the listener.ora-file

Most probably you have listener configured wrongly, the hostname you specify in connection string must be the same as in the listener.
First check the Firewall and network related issues.
Check if Oracle Listener service is available and running. If not you may use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant tool to add and register new listener.
If the above steps are ok then you need to configure Oracle Listener appropriately. You may use Oracle Net Manager tool or edit “%ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin\listener.ora” file manually.
There are 2 options that need to be considered carefully:
Listening Locations associated with the Listener – Hostname(IP) and Port in Listening Location must exactly match the ones used in the connection string.
For example, if you use 192.168.74.139 as target hostname, then there must be Listening Location registered with the same IP address.
Also make sure the you use the same SID as indicated in Database Service associated with the Listener.
https://adhoctuts.com/fix-oracle-io-error-the-network-adapter-could-not-establish-the-connection-error/

IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection (CONNECTION_ID=iKQM6lBbSLiArrYuDqud8A==)
if you are facing this issue
1- make sure you have downloaded oracle databases like oracle 11g,19c, 21c, or any latest databases.
2- search for services in your computer or type win+r then services.mis then search for oracleservice you will find orcl or xe or any other sid like oracleserviceorcl;
after that you can test your connection using sql developer, sql plus or cmd

To resolve the Network Adapter Error I had to remove the - in the name of the computer name.

In my case, I needed to specify a viahost and viauser. Worth trying if you're in a complex system. :)

For me the basic oracle only was not installed. Please ensure you have oracle installed and then try checking host and port.

I was having issues with this as well. I was using the jdbc connection string to connect to the database. The hostname was incorrectly configured in the string. I am using Mac, and the same string was being used on Windows machines without an issue. On my connection string, I had to make sure that I had the full url with the appending "organizationname.com" to the end of the hostname.
Hope this helps.

Just try to re-create connection. In my situation one of jdbc connection stopped working for no reason. From console sqlplus was working ok.
It took me 2 hours to realize that If i create the same connection - it works.

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException:Communications link failure [duplicate]

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com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
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My program that connects to a MySQL database was working fine. Then, without changing any code used to set up the connection, I get this exception:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
What happened?
The code used to get the connection:
private static Connection getDBConnection() throws SQLException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException {
String username = "user";
String password = "pass";
String url = "jdbc:mysql://www.domain.com:3306/dbName?connectTimeout=3000";
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
return conn;
}

This is a wrapped exception and not really interesting. It is the root cause of the exception which actually tells us something about the root cause. Please look a bit further in the stacktrace. The chance is big that you'll then face a SQLException: Connection refused or SQLException: Connection timed out.
If this is true in your case as well, then all the possible causes are:
IP address or hostname in JDBC URL is wrong.
Hostname in JDBC URL is not recognized by local DNS server.
Port number is missing or wrong in JDBC URL.
DB server is down.
DB server doesn't accept TCP/IP connections.
Something in between Java and DB is blocking connections, e.g. a firewall or proxy.
To solve the one or the either, follow the following advices:
Verify and test them with ping.
Refresh DNS or use IP address in JDBC URL instead.
Verify it based on my.cnf of MySQL DB.
Start it.
Verify if mysqld is started without the --skip-networking option.
Disable firewall and/or configure firewall/proxy to allow/forward the port.
By the way (and unrelated to the actual problem), you don't necessarily need to load the JDBC driver on every getConnection() call. Just only once during startup is enough.

check your wait timeout set on the DB server.
Some times it defaults to 10 seconds. This looses the connection in 10 seconds.
mysql> show global variables like '%time%' ;
update it make it something like 28800
mysql> SET GLOBAL wait_timeout = 28800;

I've been having this issue also for about 8-9 days.
Here's some background: I'm developing a simple Java application that runs in bash.
Details:
Spring 2.5.6
Hibernate3.2.3.ga
With maven.
(The base of the project is from mkyong.com , the spring tutorial without anotations )
MySQL version:
[jvazquez#archbox ~]$ mysql --version
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.9, for Linux (i686) using readline 5.1
Linux archbox 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 18 16:58:42 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 # 2.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
The application works fine in Arch Linux, Mac OS X 10.6, and FreeBSD 7.2.
When I moved the jar file to another arch linux in a different host, using the same mysql, a similar my.cnf, and the similar kernel version, the connection died and obtained the same error as the original poster:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException:
Communications link failure
I tried every possible combination for this that I found on so and the forums (http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?39,180347,180347#msg-180347 for example, which is closed now and I can't post .. ), specifically:
Triple check that I wasn't using skip
networking. (verified with ps aux
and the my.cnf)
Tried enable log_warnings=1 in the my.cnf but obviously, I wasn't hitting the
server so I didn't saw anything while using the app
SHOW ENGINE innodb STATUS didn't show anything at all; during the tests I could connect via shell, and php also connected to the mysql server
/etc/hosts has localhost 127.0.0.1
Tried the jdbc properties using localhost and 127.0.0.1 with no results
Tried adding c3p0 and changed the max_wait
Max connections in the my.cnf was changed to 900 , 2000 and still nothing my.cnf
Added wait_timeout = 60 my.cnf
Added net_wait_timeout = 360 my.cnf
Added the destroy-method="close" spring.xml
As it was pointed out (if you look up for the same exception , you will find several so threads about the issue Reproduce com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException with a setup of Spring, hibernate and C3P0
for example ).
If you are using tomcat, please check the security exception (again, it is on SO, you will find it )
Check that you can resolve that url that you are using
Try adding c3p0.
Verify that there isn't a firewall rejecting your connections
Finally , if you are using GNU/Linux ( ARch linux for example and you indeed obtain this exception )
Try
MySQL Forums :: JDBC and Java :: EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost
If the link get's removed, just add mysqld:ALL to /etc/hosts.allow
I know that is a bit extense, but it may help anybody using GNU/Linux and having this exception and this thread seemed the best place to post my research.
Hope it helps

I got the same error
but then I figured it out its because the Mysql server is not running at that time.
So to change the status of the server
Go to Task Manager
Go to Services
then search for your Mysql server(eg:for my case its MYSQL56)
then you will see under the status column it says its not running
by right clicking and select start
Hope this will help.

We have a piece of software (webapp with Tomcat) using Apache commons connection pooling, and worked great for years. In the last month I had to update the libraries due to an old bug we were encountering. The bug had been fixed in a recent version.
Shortly after deploying this, we started getting exactly these messages. Out of the thousands of connections we'd get a day, a handful (under 10, usually) would get this error message. There was no real pattern, except they would sometimes cluster in little groups of 2 to 5.
I changed the options to on the pool to validate the connection every time one is taken from or put back in the pool (if one is found bad, a new one is generated instead) and the problem went away.
Have you updated your MySQL jar lately? It seems like there may be a new setting that didn't used to be there in our (admittedly very old) jar.
I agree with BalusC to try some other options on your config, such as those you're passing to MySQL (in addition to the connection timeout).
If this failure is transient like mine was, instead of permanent, then you could use a simple try/catch and a loop to keep trying until things succeed or use a connection pool to handle that detail for you.
Other random idea: I don't know what happens why you try to use a closed connection (which exception you get). Could you be accidentally closing the connection somewhere?

Ensure skip-networking is commented out in my.cnf/my.ini

As BalusC mentioned, it would be very useful to post the full stacktrace (always post a full stacktrace, it is useless and frustrating to have only the first lines of a stacktrace).
Anyway, you mentioned that your code was working fine and that this problem started suddenly to occur without any code change so I'm wondering if this could be related to you other question Problem with not closing db connection while debugging? Actually, if this problem started while debugging, then I think it is (you ran out of connections). In that case, restart you database server (and follow the suggestions of the other question to avoid this situation).

I encountered same problem. I am using spring & dbcp & mysql 5.5But If I change localhost to 192.168.1.110 then everything works. What make things more weird is mysql -h localhost just works fine.
update: Finally found a solution. Changing bindaddress to localhost or 127.0.0.1 in my.conf will fix the problem.

In my case, the local loopback interface wasn't started, so "localhost" couldn't be resolved.
You can check this by running "ifconfig" and you should see an interface called "lo". If it is not up, you can activate it by running "ifup lo" or "ifconfig lo up".

In my case, the mysql.com downloaded Connector/J 5.1.29 .jar had this error whereas the 5.1.29 .jar downloaded from the MvnRepository did not.
This happened when building a Google appengine application in Android Studio (gradle, Windows x64), communicating to a Linux MySQL server on the local network/local VM.

I see you are connecting to a remote host. Now the question is what type of a network are you using to connect to the internet?
WINDOWS
If it's a mobile broadband device then get your machines IP address and add it to your hosting server so that your host server can allow connections coming from your machine.[your host might have turned this off due to security reasons].
Note that every time you use a different network device your IP changes.
If you are using a LAN then set a static IP address on your machine then add it to your host.
I hope this helps!! :)

I got the communications failure error when using a java.sql.PreparedStatement with a specific statement.
This was running against MySQL 5.6, Tomcat 7.0.29 and JDK 1.7.0_67 on a Windows 7 x64 machine.
The cause turned out to be setting an integer to a string parameter and a string to an integer parameter then trying to perform executeQuery on the prepared statement. After I corrected the order of parameter setting the statement performed correctly.
This had nothing to do with network issues as the wording of the error message suggested.

The escential problem is that Mysql JDBC pool connections is not used, then the Timeout from Mysql, close the Connections. You need change the pool Parameters to get restart connection when the connection has failures, on this way:
Connection Validation: Required (Check)
Validation Method: autocommit
You can change the Validation Method if you cannot get it works!

If you use WAMP, make sure it is online. What I did was, first turned my firewall off, then it worked, so after that I allowed connection for all local ports, specially port 80. Than I got rid of this problem. For me it was the Firewall who was blocking the connection.

I had the same problem and I used most of the params (autoreconnect etc..), but didn't try the (test_on_idle, or test_on_connect) , I am going to do them next.
However, I had this hack that got me through this:
I have a cron job called Healthcheck, It wakes up every 10 mins and makes a REST API call to the server. The web / app server picks this up, connects to the db, makes a small change and comes back with a 'yes all quiet on western front' or 'shitshappening'. When the latter, it sends a pager / email to the right people.
It has the side effect of always keeping the db connection pool fresh. So long as this cron is running, I don't have the db connection timeout issues. otherwise, they crop up.

JDBC: Oracle Application Server and "The Network Adapter could not establish the connection" error

I am getting the error: "The Network Adapter could not establish the connection" from a web application deployed in Oracle Application Server 10g. The database is local, so there shouldn't be any connection issues.
First test: I can connect to the DB no problem from SQL plus, run queries, etc.
Second test: I can connect to the database no problem from a locally installed JDeveloper on the server, and run queries, etc. no problem. This works with the short JDBC scring, and the long one (shown below).
jdbc:oracle:thin:#(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=abcd)(SERVER=DEDICATED)))
Yet when I run the web app, it gives the above error. It seems too generic for me to do anything about.
Any suggestions on how to solve this? I assume that Oracle logs failed connection attempts somewhere, but I couldn't find anything relevant in the databases alert.log file.
It is possible that the problem is that the application is using an old jsdk, but I would assume that then some version mismatch error would be given instead of a "network connection" message.
Edit: I don't know whether this is an OAS problem or a problem with the specific Web Application, I would like to figure this out first, as it seems it should be easy. In WebSphere, there is a "test connection" button to dest data-sources you have added, but it seems there is no such functionality in OAS10? Somehow I think there must be, and I am just missing it because I am not an OAS expert.
Edit 2: I installed JDevelop on a remote machine and connected to the database with no problems, so I know for sure it isn't an issue with the database connectivity itself - it seems like it must be a problem within OAS?

I faced similar problem(able to connect through client but not web application) with Oracle XE when running with default configuration. Increasing number of sessions and processes solved my problem. Check this http://www.markcallen.com/oracle/oracle-xe-tuning.

I assume that Oracle logs failed connection attempts somewhere
It would show up in listener.log, but with the error you get, it seems doubtful that JDBC could even contact the listener.
jdbc:oracle:thin:#(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=abcd)(SERVER=DEDICATED)))
Is that the same string you use for the web app?

I've had issues with localhost and 127.0.0.1 which go away when using a more definitive host name or address [IE a name that other machines would know the host as.]. I think it was to do with how the name was resolved (eg locally or off to a name server or similar).
Not a java person, but is there any way to simply ping localhost/127.0.0.1 from the java and see whether there's a response.

One of the ways to fix the issueis to update Hosts file at WAS Server with entries for DB servers as shown below:
111.222.333.444 serverab.abc.com serverab