We're working a project to migrate our afsdb servers to a new data center in a manner that minimizes downtime for clients. As part of this, we're going to convert all the clients we control to use afsdb records in hopes of eliminating downtime completely. There are some edge conditions we didn't immediately see an answer for, mostly relating to what a client does when the DNS AFSDB records change. We're looking at this w/r/t 1.6 and 1.8 clients. The questions we have -
- does the client time out the records in accordance with the TTLs and re-fetch them? - whether it does or not, is there a way to force the client to refetch without having to restart the client service or the entire client? Advance thanks, Steve Simmons ITS Unix Support/SCS Admins
