connectivity with IDS 11.5 on Mac OSX

Hi all, Made an interesting discovery today. Seems that on a Mac, including .local is key to setting up network connections if you want to Use things like OAT or other connections to your server. When last I mentioned this topic, I said the way to get dbaccessdemo to work was to replace *, or even *<machine_name> with localhost. That works, but as someone mentioned, quite correctly, this limits who can actually connect to you instance. So I was tinkering around with setting up OAT , and realized that. But the oat install gave me a clue. OS X makes use of a .local setting, so I changed my my sqlhosts entry from mac_1150 onsoctcp localhost sqlexec to mac_1150 onsoctcp gondolin.local sqlexec and not only did the instance come on-line, but I can now connect from other applications (like OAT) Just thought I would pass the information along. -Mark