This is probably the problem of DNS resolution timing out because there is no DNS server to do the reverse DNS lookup on that interface.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jameson Graef Rollins
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:42 PM
To: Kasemir, Kay; [email protected]
Subject: Re: multiple servers on the same (loopback) interface
On Tue, Jul 09 2013, "Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> wrote:
The first IOC will serve on TCP port 5065.
The second one can't do that, so you get the warning Configured TCP port was unavailable, ...Using dynamically assigned TCP port 34497.
Both will try to listen to UDP search requests on the same port, then reply with the TCP port that they actually use, so all should be fine.
BUT: Because of a quirk in most network kernels only one of them will actually see those UDP search requests. For me it's usually the IOC started _last_.
If you want your clients to send search requests to all IOCs that are listening on the UDP port, you need to send a broadcast. Search requests sent to a specific IP address will only reach one of the IOCs listening on that IP.
You can try setting the EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=255.255.255.255.
With localhost, that may not be possible, so you'll have to setup some network interface, maybe leave it disconnected, but it must have an IP address and most important a broadcast address.
Hi, Kay. Thanks for the suggestion. This is a possibility that I
considered, but since it requires administrative privileges to create
and configure the dummy interface it's less than ideal for a generic
testing infrastructure.
That said, I did give it a try and it does sort of work. The dummy
interface is 127.2.0.1, and both servers bind to it. However, the
client access is very slow:
0$ time EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=127.255.255.255 EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO caget -t TEST0:FOO
0
real 0m6.292s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.012s
0$
The initial response is fairly quick, but there's a long delay before
process returns. Is using a broadcast address know to introduce a
noticeable delay like this?
jamie.