[OpenAFS] Re: AFS SRV records and 1.6

Dave Botsch botsch@cnf.cornell.edu
Wed, 18 May 2011 16:03:49 -0400


So, in 1.6, are AFSDB records no longer used? Or will they be used if
the SRV records do not exist?

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:56:58PM -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> 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
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