> On 19. Jul 2019, at 15:39, Steve Simmons <s...@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> We're working a project to migrate our afsdb servers to a new data center in 
> a manner that minimizes downtime for clients. As part of this, we're going to 
> convert all the clients we control to use afsdb records in hopes of 
> eliminating downtime completely. There are some edge conditions we didn't 
> immediately see an answer for,  mostly relating to what a client does when 
> the DNS AFSDB records change. We're looking at this w/r/t 1.6 and 1.8 
> clients. The questions we have -
> 
> - does the client time out  the records in accordance with the TTLs and  
> re-fetch them?
> - whether it does or not, is there  a way to force the client to refetch 
> without having to restart the client service or the entire client?

Interesting project, good questions. While I don't know the exact answers, I 
think "fs newcell" should be useful.

- Stephan

> 
> Advance  thanks,
> 
> Steve Simmons
> ITS Unix Support/SCS Admins

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