[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Bug in OpenAFS-1.2.2

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> -dynroot doesn't use the local root.afs. This may be a shortcoming
> depending on how you look at it

It was not clear to me that "-dynroot" and a local root.afs are
mutually exclusive.

I added an additional entry in my CellServDB file for the cell "slac"
which is just a copy of the entry for cell "slac.stanford.edu". That
works.

> Combined with afsdb support you can get
> an alias for slac.stanford.edu if you have stanford.edu in your
> searchpath, though.

I am not sure how that works. I tried accessing "/afs/openafs.org"
without having it in my CellServDB and I canNOT access this cell.
The command "host -t afsdb openafs.org" shows that there _is_ a DNS
afsdb entry for this cell.

Does the "-dynroot" feature not work with these "DNS-only" cells?
Do I need an entry in CellServDB?

Thanks,
          Alf.

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