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Subject: Re: caget delays
From: "Hartman, Steven M." <[email protected]>
To: Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Core-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:57:57 +0000
> On Dec 18, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ca_context_destroy leads to destruction of an
> object of the class ipAddrToAsciiEnginePrivate, its destructor calling
> this->thread.exitWait(). Depending on your OS type, configuration, and
> version, this may hang until the call to gethostbyaddr finally times
> out, if the host that serves your PV does not have a DNS entry.


Hello Ben—

We also stumbled across this issue a few months ago. (A beneficial side effect, we identified and corrected a DNS misconfiguration.) 

I agree with your recommendation of choice three, some mechanism to enable/disable the name lookup. 

-- 
Steven Hartman
[email protected]







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