Re: caget apparent timeout

[D Peter Siddons <siddons@bnl.gov>]

That does it. Simple :) Thanks all for your help.
Pete.

On 06/28/2013 11:13 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi D,
>
> On 2013-06-28 D Peter Siddons wrote:
> > Ahhh! I bet that's it. My simple crossovers-cable connection doesn't see
> > any nameservers. I'll see if I can find a way to provide one.
> Since the problem is on the client end you should be able to just add the
> IOC's IP address to your /etc/hosts file.  The IOC doesn't need a DNS, but
> the client library tries to find the name of any server it talks to thus it
> starts up a background thread which does a DNS query, and until that request
> times out the caget program won't exit.
>
> - Andrew
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