[OpenAFS-devel] Check for CellServDB and AFSDBRR correctness?

[Ted McCabe]

At 12:09 AM +0200 7/6/01, Harald Barth wrote:
>I want to check that CellServDB entries and AFSDBRRs are reasonable correct.
>I'm thinking of doing this by asking the servers that are listed if they
>agree with the data in CellServDB and/or AFSDBRR.
>
>For example by knowing that pdc.kth.se has the server 130.237.232.114
>I can find the syncsite  130.237.232.112 and then from there get
>the third server 130.237.232.29.
>
>Pointers? Am I reinventing something that allready exists?

I too know of no such tool already extant.

I do have one pointer tho', regarding what to do with the info. 
Namely that the info shouldn't be considered authoratitive.

I've known of some sites that deliberately only published a subset of 
the actual db servers.  Also, since the check may happen while a site 
is doing maintenance on their db servers, or during an outage, a 
discrepancy may be only be temporary.

That shouldn't affect the tool development any.  I suggest only that 
a note regarding the above be added to the any documentation that 
goes with the tool.

    --Ted