[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Moving Forwards

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> writes:

> This is not strictly true. I have a list of IPv4 addresses for a
> fileserver MH record. If I don't care about working with old clients,
> that is basically an array of opaque 32-bit values. I can store an IPv6
> address in that. (Well, it is true that that won't "work" if you try to
> revert to a 'normal' vlserver, of course.)

Yeah, but you need everyone to agree on the 32-bit value to IPv6 address
mapping, and unless you want to distribute the equivalent of a hosts file,
that probably means a new central VLDB service that allows translation
from opaque identifiers to actual addresses.

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