[OpenAFS-devel] Possible 1.3.85 fileserver/volserver problem
Robert Banz
banz@umbc.edu
Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:50:41 -0400
Esther Filderman wrote:
> Yesterday a machine at CMU went nuts, at best guess, and started
> spewing crappy packets at every server in the CSDB it ran into.
> Machines either dumped core & restarted or got into an
> overbusy/overloaded/bogged down state.
>
> The machine was removed from the network at about midnight EST.
>
> This machine is not under my domain. Hopefully the folks who do
> control the machine will help us try to figure out what went wrong.
>
Has there been any further information regarding this?
Call me crazy, but if there is some sort of "achilles heal" to the AFS
fileserver, I'd sure like to know about it ;)
-rob