On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Ken Elkabany <k...@elkabany.com> writes: > >> We have had to replace our master openafs fileserver several times. Each >> time we have had to go through each client and update the CellServDB >> file to reflect the IP address of the new replacement server. Since we >> always map a domain name to the master openafs fileserver, is it >> possible to specify in the CellServDB file to always use domain name x >> as opposed to an IP? This feature would allow the system to reconfigure >> itself automatically once the DNS information is updated. > > No. The file semantics don't support that. > > However, you can enable AFSDB records (add the -afsdb flag to afsd), and > then use a zero-length CellServDB file, and all VLDB location information > will be resolved via AFSDB records.
Or name just cells you want with this behavior as e.g. >cell.name #Whatever instead of >cell.name #Whatever IP #host -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
