On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Andy Cobaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-08-09 at 15:15, Ken Dreyer ( [email protected] ) said: >> >> In the course of setting up remctl for our AFS infrastructure, I was >> wondering how other sites expose remctld servers to their users. Do >> you have a hostname that's dedicated to this service, such as >> remctl.example.edu ? > > > I wrote a little wrapper script for remctl for afs purposes: > > http://www.personal.psu.edu/~atc135/afs-control > > In theory you could have several remctld servers that can be used for afs > operations (in my case, calling afs-backend with some hacks to make it use > LDAP for access contorl). The afs-control wrapper would randomize over a > list of hostnames in $AFS_BACKEND_SERVERS, and continue trying until it > found one that worked.
Thank you to everyone who replied! It sounds like the best option is to treat remctl only as a network protocol for talking to individual servers, and build HA at a higher layer, depending on the application. - Ken ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
