On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> To clarify.  When using dynroot on Unix or freelance on Windows,
>
> To further clarify - whilst what Jeffrey has outlined is correct for Windows, 
> it misses some essential details for Unix.
>
> On Unix 'dynroot' populates the local root.afs with all of the entries known 
> to the cache manager (these may be entries in CellServDB, or ones added with 
> fs newcell).

Or entries in the CellAliases file, which just creates symlinks to the
"proper" cell name.

>This list is permanently populated, so ls /afs/ will list all of the cells in 
>your CellServDB.
>
> The DNS is only used to lookup unknown cells if the -afsdb option is 
> specified when starting afsd. Despite the name, this controls the use of both 
> AFSDB and SRV records.

In 1.5. In 1.4 it uses solely AFSDB records at this time.
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