[OpenAFS] Newbie: Problems connection to my new cell: /afs: Operation timed out.

[Derek Atkins]

And it resolves to 10.0.1.9?

Do you by any chance have a "personal firewall" setup on your AFS
Server?

-derek

Dominik Westner <lists@logicunited.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
> 
> loki.home.nikwest.de is defined in my private DNS server, which is not
> accessible from the internet (as 10.0.1.9 is not a valid ip for the
> internet)
> 
> in my intranet loki.home.nikwest.de can be resolved by all clients.
> 
> Dominik
> 
> On Dienstag, April 2, 2002, at 05:57 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > I can't resolve loki.home.nikwest.de; do you have that in your
> > /etc/hosts.conf (or MacOS equivalent)?
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Dominik Westner <westner@logicunited.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I followed the quick install instructions to setup a new afs
> >> cell/server on my gentoo linux machine.
> >> It seems that everything worked out fine. I have a working root.cell
> >> on the linux machine under /afs/nikwest
> >>
> >> Now I tried to access it from my Mac OS X machine. I set my cell to
> >> nikwest (as defined on my server) and edited the CellServDB to include
> >> my cell information:
> >>> nikwest        #Cell name
> >> 10.0.1.9    #loki.home.nikwest.de.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately when I try to access the /afs directory I get the
> >> following message:
> >> [icebox:db/openafs/etc] dominik% cd /afs
> >> /afs: Operation timed out.
> >>
> >> I have no idea what the problem is. I can check the status of the
> >> server, it also gets listed and I can use klog to log in  as admin,
> >> but I can't access the /afs directory.
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Dominik
> >>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available