[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Re: [GSoC2010] the kafs project of OpenAFS

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Friday, April 09, 2010 09:27:09 PM +0800 Wang Lei 
<wang840925@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks! RFC1183 seems old. The SRV RR provides more information. I
> will use the SRV RR, if needed. I would judge the kafs and talk with
> my project mentor.

Old is not the same as no longer in use.  For example, RFC's 791, 792, and 
793 describe important standard protocols which are in wide use today, in 
basically the same form as described 29 years ago.

The choice of whether to publish AFSDB and/or SRV records is up to a cell 
administrator.  As a client implementor, you should support both.  AFSDB 
records are widely deployed today, and it is not reasonable to tell users 
of your software that they cannot talk to cells using them without first 
convincing the cell adminstrator to convince his/her DNS administrator to 
publish SRV records.  In some organizations, that process could take months 
or years!

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA