[OpenAFS] Re: AFS SRV records and 1.6

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com
Mon, 16 May 2011 17:56:58 -0600


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 15:12:21 -0600
> Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been testing the 1.6pre4 release in Linux. Works great.
>>
>> I'd been using AFSDB records on 1.4, and I was hoping to try out the
>> new support for SRV records. It appears SRV record support is only
>> built into the Windows client?
>
> Unix clients should have SRV support in 1.6. Does it not work for you,
> or did you just not see it go in?

Oh, looking a bit closer at this, my client does use SRV records. It
confused me that the "-afsdb" option remains the same. Maybe we could
update the manpages for CellServDB and afsd? Suggested patch at
http://gerrit.openafs.org/4670

- Ken