Re: AFSDB DNS records

[Derrick J. Brashear]

Excerpts from internet.info-afs: 23-Apr-96 Re: AFSDB DNS records by
"Paul Blackburn"@hursley 
> As with many of Life's other little quandrys, managing CellServDB
> has an upside to balance the downside:
>    + you have some "control" about which cells are accessible.

Not really. If I find out that Foobar Incorporated has an afs cell, with
a little bit of probing with rxdebug and udebug it's probably relatively
easy to find their cell unless there's a firewall.

>    + (correct me if I am wrong, but..) I think that because DNS
>      is _not_ involved in AFS, you have continuity in the event
>      of nameserver outage.

You're wrong, sorta.... The afsconf package calls gethostbyname. It will
fall back; it just takes a while. 

-D