[OpenAFS] Re: false fileserver in vldb, howto remove?

[Andrew Deason]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:24 +0100
Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer@cgv.tugraz.at> wrote:

> I am stuck on a small problem. While I redid one of my fileserver, it 
> started with a wrong IP and registered its volumes on the wrong IP.
> Now I tryed to get rid of this IP.
> 
> I did:
> vos delentry -server 172.24.25.81  (wrong IP)
> Afterwards all my vldb entries were gone.
> So I needed to:
> vos syncvldb fileserver(1-4)
> vos syncserv fileserver(1-4)

You don't need to do this. If you just restart a fileserver with the
correct IP information, the addresses will be updated in the vldb.

> (the three fileservers with a 172.24.25.x network do have a 
> /etc/openafs/NetRestrict file which includes:
> 172.24.25.255

For debian, I believe this should be /var/lib/openafs/local/NetRestrict,
not /etc/openafs/NetRestrict.

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Andrew Deason
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