[OpenAFS] Problem accessing AFS from other systems

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, June 16, 2005 09:02:41 AM -0500 Kurt Seiffert 
<seiffert@indiana.edu> wrote:

>> [seiffert@mystery seiffert]$ vos exam root.cell
>> Could not fetch the information about volume 536870915 from the server
>> Possible communication failure
>> Error in vos examine command.
>> Possible communication failure
>>
>> Dump only information from VLDB
>>
>> root.cell
>>     RWrite: 536870915     ROnly: 536870916
>>     number of sites -> 2
>>        server localhost.localdomain partition /vicepa RW Site
>>        server localhost.localdomain partition /vicepa RO Site


Looks to me like you have a VLDB entry pointing to 127.0.0.1 instead of 
your server's real address.  Check that your server does not have a broken 
/etc/hosts which has the server's real hostname listed on the same line as 
127.0.0.1.