Re: [OpenAFS] a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

2022-03-27 Thread Jeffrey E Altman
On 3/23/2022 11:15 AM, Giovanni Bracco (giovanni.bra...@enea.it) wrote: > In the documentation for the CellServDB file (both client & server) > https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/5/CellServDB.html > > it is declared that is the "fully qualified hostname" > that must be provided in the line

Re: [OpenAFS] a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

2022-03-24 Thread Giovanni Bracco
So on Unix/linux systems only the ip address is relevant. Is that true both for OpenAFS client and servers? On Windows clients there must be consistency between the ip address and the DNS entry of the #hostname portion of CellServDB file Giovanni On 23/03/22 21:57, Mark Vitale wrote:

Re: [OpenAFS] a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

2022-03-23 Thread Mark Vitale
Giovanni, > On 23 Mar 2022, at 11:15 AM, Giovanni Bracco wrote: > > In the documentation for the CellServDB file (both client & server) > https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/5/CellServDB.html > > it is declared that is the "fully qualified hostname" > that must be provided in the line defining

[OpenAFS] a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

2022-03-23 Thread Giovanni Bracco
In the documentation for the CellServDB file (both client & server) https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/5/CellServDB.html it is declared that is the "fully qualified hostname" that must be provided in the line defining a dbserver. So even if a dbserver has an alias in the DNS different from the