On Monday, April 03, 2006 01:22:16 PM -0400 Pedro Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IF /etc/nsswitch.conf could contain a line like this: afs: dns files OR afs: files dns things would work just like DNS. Could this be a possible solution?
Not really. It turns out that the innards of the name service switch are completely different from one operating system to the next, and not very extensible in this direction. Doing what you describe would require extending the 'files' and 'dns' nss backends to understand the "afs" database, which can't be done without replacing the modules the OS vendor provides (if they're even provided as modules, which is not required).
Also, a "solution" to what? We could probably make it possible to tell the cache manager to use DNS first, but what would be the point? If you want to rely primarily on the DNS for locating AFS servers, then your CellServDB should be mostly empty, containing only entries for cells where the nameservers are unresponsive, or hand out incorrect data, or where you otherwise want to override the data handed out in the DNS.
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