If you upgrade your file servers this behavior will stop. The clients that are connecting to your file server are reporting their IP addresses. Some of these are NAT'd addresses which are unreachable by the file server.
Current file servers do not trust the IP address list presented by the clients. Jeffrey Altman Jean Praloran wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm running OpenAFS 1.4.6 under NetBSD 4.0. > > I'm having some troubles with afs since about a month and decided to > debug a little bit. While doing this I noticed some strange action my > server was trying to perform, in my log I get this kind of stuff : > > > Tue May 5 14:56:18 2009 --- alt address 192.168.254.42:7001 > Tue May 5 14:56:18 2009 multiprobe failure with addr 192.168.254.42:7001 > Tue May 5 14:56:19 2009 multiprobe failure with addr 192.168.254.42:7001 > Tue May 5 14:56:19 2009 multiprobe failure with addr 192.168.254.42:7001 > > > The main problem is that I don't have any network communication from a > host with the ip 192.168.254.42. > > So the server is always trying to say something to the cache manager of > this host althought it doesn't exist !!!!!!!! I got the same problem > with two other ips : > > Tue May 5 14:59:27 2009 --- alt address 192.168.85.1:7001 > Tue May 5 14:59:27 2009 --- alt address 192.168.75.1:7001 > > > Here is some more log from the starts of the server, maybe that's > usefull for the comprehension of the problem : > > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 WhoAreYou success on 10.42.2.43:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 InitCallBackState3 success on 10.42.34.14:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 initInterfaceAddr : host 10.42.34.14:7001 numAddr 3 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 --- uuid 8c569092-6080-40ef-80-2e-9149758dd24e > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 --- alt address 10.42.34.14:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 --- alt address 192.168.85.1:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 --- alt address 192.168.75.1:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:56 2009 CB: RCallBackConnectBack succeeded for host > 8d41000 (10.42.34.14:7001) > > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 InitCallBackState3 success on 172.25.142.112:1260 > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 initInterfaceAddr : host 172.25.142.112:1260 > numAddr 1 > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 --- uuid 6f6af19a-395d-01df-ac-97-000c29cffcbd > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 --- alt address 192.168.254.42:7001 > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 --- alt address 172.25.142.112:1260 > Tue May 5 14:04:57 2009 CB: RCallBackConnectBack succeeded for host > 8d412f0 (172.25.142.112:1260) > > > > If anybody have an idea, I'd be glad to hear from you ;) > > If you need any other information, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > > -- > Praloran Jean
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