Hi Andrew, thanks for your information and advice.
I was not aware of the 'fs newcell' with 0.0.0.0 I try it without an IP, but that gives me an error-message. /Ralf Am 04.05.2010 um 20:57 schrieb Andrew Deason: > On Tue, 4 May 2010 13:01:48 -0500 > Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Questions: >>> * How can we migrate those clients to use the AFSDB-records without >>> rebooting (will the kernel-resisdent list updated if the afsd >>> started with -afsdb)? >>> * Or is the reboot needed to get rid of the kernel-list? > [...] >> Anyway, AFSDB records will not override static information set via >> CellServDB or 'fs newcell' (unless the CellServDB specifies no hosts). >> So, as far as I know, you need to reboot/restart the clients. > > Actually, you can use 'fs newcell' to do this, though we don't document > that you can (and it looks like it's accidental, to me). If you give > 0.0.0.0 as the only IP address(es) for a cell, it will effectively clear > the list. (or if you give it a hostname that doesn't exist, it will also > do that, but IMHO that's a bug) > > So, if you do this: > > fs newcell cell.name.foo 0.0.0.0 > > That client should use DNS lookups for dbserver information from then > on, assuming it was started with -afsdb. If it was not started with > -afsdb, that cell will become inaccessible until the client is > restarted, or you provide a dbserver list with 'fs newcell' again. > > This seems a bit odd, though useful. Should we document this? Or should > we prevent this behavior, and perhaps create a new command / option to > clear the host list for a cell? > > -- > Andrew Deason > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
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