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

Ian Delahorne ian@assv.net
11 Oct 2002 16:54:39 +0200


Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> > > > 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 heard some rumor about this being fixed in OpenAFS, true?
> 
> 1.2.7 is the first release whose fileservers have the necessary changes,
> though the athena.mit.edu cell has been running with the patches for quite
> some time. My understanding is (quite some time ago) one problem was found
> and fixed, and other than that it's been stable and reliable.

Ok, good to know.
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