[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] GRAND.CENTRAL.ORG Public CellServDB

[Nathan Neulinger]

When is openafs.org going to start to use it's own product? Sure would
be nice if stuff like this CellServDB were available via AFS.

-- Nathan

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> For many years, Transarc and IBM have provided the service of maintaining
> a common CellServDB file, containing entries for the publicly-accessible
> cells of any AFS customers who wished to have them published.  This has
> and continues to be a valuable service to the AFS community.
> 
> However, when the current OpenAFS organization was first being set up, its
> Council of Elders agreed (at IBM's request) that OpenAFS distributions
> would _not_ include a copy of the CellServDB file that IBM makes available
> to its AFS customers.  This has created the need for an independently
> maintained, public database of cell configuration information.
> 
> I am happy to announce that as part of its continuing mission to provide
> services and information of general use to the AFS community,
> grand.central.org is now attempting to fill that need.  To this end, we
> have created the GCO Public CellServDB, which is a freely available
> database of cell configuration information.
> 
> Like IBM's database, ours is 100% opt-in -- only those cells that wish to
> be published will be included, and the database has not been pre-seeded
> from any other source.  The downside to this, of course, is that it is
> presently quite small.  In order for this to be a useful service, we need
> cell contacts to register with us.  Once a cell is registered, we will
> keep up with changes announced in public forums like info-afs and
> openafs-info.  However, we will not add new cells announced in those
> places -- that would violate our policy of including only those cells
> which have specifically asked to be included.
> 
> The GCO Public CellServDB is available via ftp or http as a standard
> CellServDB file, at the following locations:
> ftp://ftp.central.org/pub/cellservdb/CellServDB
> http://grand.central.org/dl/cellservdb/CellServDB
> 
> New cells, changes, and removal requests can be sent to:
> GCO Public CellServDB Maintainer <cellservdb@grand.central.org>
> 
> To receive notices related to the GCO Public CellServDB, including
> new and changed cells, subscribe to the cellservdb-announce list:
> http://lists.central.org/mailman/listinfo/cellservdb-announce
> 
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>    GRAND.CENTRAL.ORG/OpenAFS.ORG postmaster, webmaster, etc
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
> 
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