[OpenAFS] Small suggestion for RH spec file?

[Derek Atkins]

There is a big difference between your clients having access to the full
CellServDB, and publishing your servers.  You could easily monitor your
own site for rogue AFS Servers, and if you never publish your own server
list then people outside your site cannot access your servers.  But
restricting what external servers that clients inside your company can
access is just madness.

-derek

Deniz Akkus Kanca <deniz@arayan.com> writes:

> The site I am involved with does not use AFS as a global filesystem. They see 
> AFS as a robust internal file serving mechanism, period.  They also have 
> concerns about internal users and restrict outside http and mail access to 
> those with a business need. Within that kind of framework, you don't want the 
> user accessing global AFS. Currently the AFS world seems free of the types of 
> rogue http and ftp servers that have sprung up, but if it grows wider, there 
> will be MP3 and pirated software serving AFS sites at some point. And then 
> you've got the world coming to your door about company harboring pirated 
> software, dealing with viruses and wondering where your bandwidth is gone... 
> 
> I do think back fondly on a friendlier, nicer Internet, but I am afraid it is 
> long gone. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Deniz
> 
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