Hi, I am setting up a new AFS cell on AWS and am running into some issues during afs-newcell. I am setting up the first AFS server with all the components. When I first setup a cell everything worked fine except that it was inaccessible outside of AWS. It seemed that the fileserver and dbserver were being resolved to the instance's private hostname and IP inside AWS's NAT. On my second try I edited afs-newcell to use my desired hostname instead of the instance's. This hostname has a public IP and is accessible from outside AWS
The error I am getting now is that ptserver does not seem to be happy seeing that the local hostname and the hostname I am setting up do not agree. The PtLog says: Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Inconsistent Cell Info from server: Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 <instance's private NAT IP> Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Local CellServDB:Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Server 1: Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 <instance's public IP> Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 Inconsistent Cell Info on server: Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 <instance's public IP> Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013 ptserver: problems with host name Ubik init failed afs-newcell fails when it tries to contact bos. The BosLog says: Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: Core limits now -1 -1 Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: Server directory access is okay Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: Listening on 0.0.0.0:7007 Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: vlserver exited with code 2 ... Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: ptserver exited with code 2 Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: BNODE 'ptserver' repeatedly failed to start, perhaps missing executable. Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: vlserver exited with code 2 Tue Jun 18 03:31:54 2013: BNODE 'vlserver' repeatedly failed to start, perhaps missing executable. Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013: ptserver exited with code 2 Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013: BNODE 'ptserver' repeatedly failed to start, perhaps missing executable. Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013: vlserver exited with code 2 Tue Jun 18 03:31:55 2013: BNODE 'vlserver' repeatedly failed to start, perhaps missing executable. Tue Jun 18 03:35:20 2013: dafs:salsrv exited with code 1 >From the little I found online there were some references to a NetInfo file, but I was unable to find any good documentation for it. The file does not appear in my instance. Has anyone had similar experiences setting up an AFS cell in AWS? or behind a NAT? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Victor
