[OpenAFS] Re: AFSDB dns lookup

[Pedro Perez]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

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>
> On Monday, April 03, 2006 08:35:18 AM -0700 Adam Megacz 
> <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> Pucky Loucks <ploucks@pixpo.com> writes:
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>>> Is it possible to set openafs to lookup the afsdb from dns on a mac
>>> or rhel?
>>
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>> As of 1.4.1-rc9, the Mac OS X client will check AFSDB by default;
>> there is no need for additional configuration on the client.
>>
>>> And will that override the ip that is in the CellServDB?
>>
>>
>> No; CellServDB always overrides AFSDB.  Sort of like /etc/hosts.
>
>
> .... except that on any vageuly modern system, you can make DNS 
> override /etc/hosts if you really want to, but you can't make AFS 
> ignore the CellServDB in favor of looking up AFSDB records.  I don't 
> expect this ever to change -- if you want to look up dbservers for a 
> cell dynamically, don't include that cell in the CellServDB.
>
> -- Jeff

IF /etc/nsswitch.conf could contain a line like this:

afs: dns files

OR

afs: files dns

things would work just like DNS. Could this be a possible solution?

--
Pedro Perez