>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:22:53AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan> wrote:
>> Is there any way to force venus to use the configured server
>> address to talk to the codasrv?
Jan> What configured server address? The `rootservers'
Jan> configuration option only tells venus which machines to ask
Jan> for volume location information.
OK, I'm confused. Still the client does talk to the server at first
with the address I intend it to have.
Jan> The volume location database (VLDB), which is used to locate
Jan> the server that stores a volume, contains one ip-address for
Jan> a server, the first one returned from
Jan> gethostbyname(gethostname()).
I'm probably hosed then, Coda can't handle multi-homed hosts. (It
probably doesn't need to for my immediate application, I'm sure it's a
bad idea to have a Coda server that has sensitive stuff for the VPN
also accessible from the public network. But I could imagine for
example the Coda server being accessible from two partitions of an
internal network---in fact, that is what I have in mind in the long
run.)
Jan> In general, what you want is to have your machines listed
Jan> with one (publicly known) ip-address, and then add static
Jan> host routes to redirect internal traffic over the VPN.
It's not a V*P*N anymore, then, is it? This is not acceptable; I
don't want applications using the VPN to know anything about the
external network, and vice-versa, except for designated gateways.
(One problem is that I will be sharing the physical network with
nearly public-access DHCP and security-comatose colleagues; one point
of the experiment is to demonstrate the possibilities of this kind of
arrangement to the technical staff, who have no time to "play.")
I guess this means that in practice I will have to move the Coda
server(s) off the public network, so they can be single-homed on the
VPN.
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