[OpenAFS] Small suggestion for RH spec file? (keeping CellServDB up-to-date on *nix clients)

Mitch Collinsworth mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:10:35 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >presently in use at all.  My only options seem to be a) pay for the
> >b/w used by foreign AFS clients with ancient CellServDB files, or b)
> >ask the network folks to filter these IPs at the internet connection,
> >which prevents me from re-using them.
>
> Maybe the "right" answer is to have your cell removed from the master
> CellServDB and simply tell sites that want to access your cell to use
> the AFSDB records.  Okay, doesn't help your problem today, but would
> prevent it from happening in the future.  Hmmmm..... that doesn't sound
> like a bad idea ... now if I can just convince our admins to do that :-)

Hmm, what future would that be?  :-)  One of the IPs I see this
happening on was part of a cell that was decommissioned in 1999.  The
subnet it belongs to isn't even in use anymore.

-Mitch