[OpenAFS] "failed to store file"/"Lost contact with file server

[Mark Vitale]

> On Feb 12, 2021, at 8:16 AM, IT.openafs <it.openafs@icsense.com> wrote:
>=20
> Dear Admins,
>=20
> Our servers are running openafs 1.6.9, 1.6.10, and 1.6.20.
> With the hope to get rid of occasional getcwd-issues, we recently upgrade=
d our clients (running CentOS 7) to openafs 1.8.7=20
>=20
> About 3 weeks later, we started having occasional issues with afs-clients=
 which suddenly stopped working. (5 times on 5 different centos machines at=
 random times)

Based on the packet trace, you need:=20
https://gerrit.openafs.org/#/c/14364/  afs: Avoid NatPing event on all conn=
ection

This is not included in 1.8.7, but is scheduled for 1.8.8.

Regards,
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Mark Vitale
mvitale@sinenomine.net