Re: AFSDB DNS records

[Ken Hornstein]

>>    + (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. 

That's only for the userland utilities (fs, vos, etc ...).  The loss of
DNS won't affect the cache manager.

--Ken