[OpenAFS-devel] AFS with DNS using AFSDB records

[Nathan Neulinger]

Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> 
> > Which is authoritative?  CellServDB or AFSDB?
> 
> CellServDB.  An AFSDB lookup is performed only if there is no existing
> entry for the cell, or if the TTL from a previous AFSDB lookup on the
> same cell has expired.  Cells from CellServDB never expire.
> 
> -- kolya
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I might suggest that "fs newcell cellname <nothing here>" be usable to
delete a cached entry from cellservdb file potentially triggering future
retrieval by afsdb.

-- Nathan

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