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Archived Messages for CDEV_1997@cebaf.gov: Re: CA and EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST -> EPICS_CA_ADDR_FILE
Re: CA and EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST -> EPICS_CA_ADDR_FILE
Jeff Hill (johill@lanl.gov)
Fri, 30 May 1997 18:26:52 -0600
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> From: Matthias Clausen DESY -MKS-2/KRYK- <CLAUS@vxhera.desy.de>
> To: cdev@CEBAF.GOV; tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> Cc: CLAUS@vxhera.desy.de
> Subject: Re: CA and EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST -> EPICS_CA_ADDR_FILE
> Date: Friday, May 30, 1997 1:08 PM
>
> The question of getting access to remote (off subnet) IOC's is a common
one.
> The limit in the env. vars is maybe also good because we might end with
addr-lists of too
> many nodes. None the less I want to propose to add a new env. var like:
EPICS_CA_ADDR_FILE
> where you can enter all your IOC's you want to talk to. This might be a
performance hit to
> the client and therefore it should not be implemented on the IOC clinet.
> Another solution might be the ca_name_server which we heared about during
the EPICS
> workshop and which might have another implementation based on the
portable ca_server.
> If this solution would be available already for 3.13 (Jeff??) many of us
would not need to
> argue any more about the limitations in EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST.
>
I intend to slip this small change (allowing the ca server to provide name
resolution services) into EPICS 3.13.
Jeff