[OpenAFS] Re: Ubik problem

Andrew Deason adeason@sinenomine.net
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:03:54 -0500


On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:21:30 -0400
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:

> On 4/12/2010 8:54 AM, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> > Jeffrey, thanks for the superfast response.
> > 
> >> What version of OpenAFS?  What does the address report if you use
> >> the udebug from the sparc system to query the x86 system?  I believe
> >> this is just a reporting problem with udebug client that was fixed
> >> on master.

Yeah, 63fe055ecd13c93a3a6070a15a745ace2e420817, not on 1.4 yet. It's
just cosmetic.

> > The a.b.c.d becoming d.c.b.a seems to be just cosmetic, but there are
> > some other issues.  Out of 128.214.58.174 and 128.214.88.114, the
> > lowest numbered host certainly isn't 128.214.88.114,
> 
> actually it is because that server is reporting multiple addresses:
> 
>   Server( 128.214.88.114 10.0.0.3 172.16.0.1 172.17.0.1 172.18.0.1 )
> 
> several of which are lower than 128.214.58.174.   What are these other
> interface addresses are do you expect them to be used for ubik
> synchronization?

If you want the other db server to be the lowest host, you can restrict
the addresses advertised with NetInfo/NetRestrict. But if that doesn't
matter to you, there doesn't seem to be a problem. Are you seeing other
issues with the database itself?

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net