[OpenAFS-devel] Result of badly synchronized system clocks?

[Derek Atkins]

Hans-Werner Paulsen <hans@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:11:10AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Right.  As soon as the client hits a server that tells it "token
> > invalid" it throws the token away.
> Hm. The token is still there: If I do
> 	ktc_GetToken
> 	ktc_SetToken
> the access to the fileserver with the good clock is working again.

THAT is odd....

> > 
> > This is not a bug.
> But, is it a useful feature?

Well, AFS makes an assumption that all servers are efectively equivalent.
You are breaking that assumption, so all bets are off.

-derek

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