On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:22:53AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Is there any way to force venus to use the configured server address
> to talk to the codasrv?
What configured server address? The `rootservers' configuration option
only tells venus which machines to ask for volume location information.
The volume location database (VLDB), which is used to locate the server
that stores a volume, contains one ip-address for a server, the first
one returned from gethostbyname(gethostname()). For server to client
SFTP transfers, the ipaddress/port are probably sent along with the
initial request.
In general, what you want is to have your machines listed with one
(publicly known) ip-address, and then add static host routes to redirect
internal traffic over the VPN.
| LAN
--+------------+-----------------+--
| 130.158.x.1 | 130.158.x.2
----------- -----------
| server | | client |
----------- -----------
| 192.168.1.1 | 192.168.1.2
--+------------------------------+--
VPN
So, "nslookup client" would return 130.158.x.2, and the server would
have an entry in the routing table like this:
route add 130.158.x.2 gw 192.168.1.2
Similarily for the client.
It is pretty much impossible to have any other way of letting the client
know what the preferred route to a server is.
Jan
