[OpenAFS-devel] zepa.net?

[Russ Allbery]

Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@Stanford.EDU> writes:

> Does anyone know what the cell zepa.net is, or why OpenAFS 1.2.5 is
> constantly trying to reach it?  Our webservers are running OpenAFS 1.2.5
> with the -dynroot -afsdb flags, and have no users.  We do not allow
> people to access cells outside of /afs/ir.stanford.edu through our
> webservers. However, the syslog of the machine is full of notices that
> AFS cannot contact 205.245.53.48 in cell zepa.net.

At a guess, somewhere in web space, someone has a link to a path under
/afs/zepa.net.  (That IP address is neptune.zepa.net, one of their VLDB
servers according to their AFSDB record.)

> 2 of the web server machines have also crashed since being upgraded to
> OpenAFS 1.2.5, and these messages are the only noticably odd things I'm
> seeing in the logs.

I'm guessing this is probably unrelated, but I'm obviously not sure.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>