Hi Jeffrey, On Thursday 01 September 2005 8:26 pm, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > So tell us about your experience, but please don't spread FUD about AFS by > making blanket statements like "OpenAFS doesn't seem to work very well with > NATs" based solely on your own experiences. I don't care for NAT's but I > do use them from time to time, and it works just fine for me.
To my knowledge it wasn't FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt): every time I've tried it, I've encountered issues. I still wouldn't recommend using AFS behind NATs to someone who asked about my experience with it, but it's good to know that it works for others. > If you'd like to describe your setup and symptoms in enough detail that we > can reproduce the problem, I'm sure there are any number of people who > would be interested in helping to try to track it down and build in a > workaround for whatever broken behavior your network hardware has. But > until then, please don't spread FUD about OpenAFS with blanket statements > like "The developers do not seem to be interested in a solution for this". I can only go into so much detail about our configuration for various reasons, but I'd be happy to do what I can in the future. My statement that the developers are not interested in a solution for the NAT issue however comes from the recurring anti-NAT response seen several times in the past on this list when these issues have come up. I won't argue the point any further, however the particular statement you pulled out was intended to be taken in context of the statement which directly followed. > If you ask around, I expect that most people will tell you that the > solution to your problem is to stop using the kaserver. Undoubtedly. I don't think our issue is with the kaserver, which works, but rather the client PAM module. I'll get it worked out eventually I'm sure. > That said, feel free to file a bug report. Without one, your problem will > not be fixed, before 1.4 or after. I was unable to reproduce any problem > with getting tokens from a kaserver on an amd64_linux26 box, but then, I > didn't know enough about your environment to try very hard. It must be something I'm doing wrong then, it's good to know that it works in your case. Regards, Lester Barrows _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
