On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:21:29 +1100 > Robert Sturrock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The new VM is configured (it's just a clone of hermes2 with the >> name/IP changed). I'm wondering if I can simply shutdown telos and >> bring up hermes3 with its IP address? The hostname will obviously be >> different - I'm not sure if that matters to database servers. (The >> client CellServDB files use IPs and CNAMEs so that should be ok). > > Just a note... there is a field for the hostname in the CellServDB. I > don't believe it really matters to OpenAFS if it's wrong, but it might > be confusing to anyone in the future who's looking at the entries and > wondering what they are. So essentially, no, there's no problem with > just changing the hostname (Simon gives more details).
The Windows client does do lookups of that hostname and tries to use the result. This behavior pre-existed OpenAFS. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
