[OpenAFS] New OpenAFS Cell: lns.mit.edu

[J Maynard Gelinas]

   Agreed. But we need to upgrade our BIND distribution before we can do
that. This is in the works, and once done I'll put in the AFSDB records.

Cheers
--Maynard

On 9 Aug 2002, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:

> J Maynard Gelinas <gelinas@lns.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> >   Hi folks,
> > 
> >   Our test cell has gone production! I've just finished mirgating most of
> > the linux clients at the MIT Laboratory For Nuclear Science to
> > OpenLDAP+krb5+AFS and except for a few hiccups it's been quite stable.
> > Currently we have three database servers and five file servers. The File
> > servers are IA32 host + SCSI RAID going SX fiber Gb or Gb/TP hung off of
> > Cisco 4000s and one 6000, separated by buildings throughout the lab.
> > Clients go 100Mb directly to each switch. Performance is *quite good*. :)
> > 
> >   Thanks and kudos to the many OpenAFS developers and technical writers
> > who provided the tools necessary to make this happen. :)
> > 
> >   So, how do I get our new cell included in the distribution CellServDB?
> > 
> >    Specifics: 
> > 
> >    Kerberos:
> >    kdc = kerberos.lns.mit.edu:88
> >    kdc = kerberos-1.lns.mit.edu:88
> >    kdc = kerberos-2.lns.mit.edu:88
> >    admin_server = kerberos.lns.mit.edu:749
> 
> Since you put up your cnanes right everything will work fine.
> 
> >    AFS:
> >    >lns.mit.edu                    #MIT/LNS Cell
> >    198.125.160.133                 #afsdb1.lns.mit.edu.
> >    198.125.162.11                  #afsdb2.lns.mit.edu.
> >    198.125.161.19                  #afsdb3.lns.mit.edu.
> 
> You dont have an AFSDB-record.
> I do belive that DNS is better than {HOSTS.TXT,CellServDB}.
> 
> $ dig AFSDB lns.mit.edu | grep AFSDB
> ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> AFSDB lns.mit.edu
> ;lns.mit.edu.                   IN      AFSDB
> 
> 
> It should look like this:
> 
> $ dig AFSDB openafs.org | grep AFSDB
> ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> AFSDB openafs.org
> ;openafs.org.                   IN      AFSDB
> openafs.org.            3593    IN      AFSDB   1 virtue.openafs.org.
> 
> 
> At my site we will very soon just put sites in our root.afs that have a
> valid AFSDB-record. We will then have an empty CellServDB-file, which i
> think i an good idea.
> 
> /Jimmy
>