We have had a problem recently where the backupsys command only
found one volume on a server. The -server parameter gave the full
node name of the server.
We have two file servers which have multiple network interfaces,
and thus have multiple IP addresses. AFS referees to the servers
by name, but appears to store one of the IP numbers in the VLDB
based on a DNS lookup.
We also have more then one name server. The name servers will
order the list of IP addresses returned by a gethostbyname
request based on some best path algorithm depeinding on where
you are in the network, and where the name server is located.
The questions are:
Is this a bug in backupsys? Should it use all the addresses
returned by DNS?
Since the server has more then one IP address, what other commands
can have a problem with the VLDB?
Is there a way to list the IP numbers stored in the VLDB rather
then the names?
Is there any documentation on this? (I dont have the source.)
The fact that backupsys found one volume, I think there is a
single volume in the VLDB with the wrong IP number. The trick is
to find out which one it is!
We had a similar problem when we changed the address of the FDDI
interface on one of the servers. I had to sync the VLDBs.
Douglas E. Engert
Systems Programming
Argonne National Laboratory
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