[OpenAFS] How to mount a cell that's not in CellServDB ?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:18:25 -0400 (EDT)


On 11 Oct 2002, Ian Delahorne wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> 
> > > I use openafs 1.2.7 at home and the university uses 1.2.5
> > 
> > If they use the grand.central.org CellServDB, perhaps you should just
> > register your cell and they'll pick it up for you. 
> 
> They (nada.kth.se) have their own cellservdb that only has entries
> relevant to education. Plus they block incoming AFS from !KTH-nets.

Sure, one too many times they got hosed by clients which could source AFS
udp traffic and not receive the replies bringing down their servers. 

I vaguely recall hearing about it when it happened.