On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Simon Wilkinson <simonxwilkin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2012, at 21:29, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > This is what SRV records are for, yes. Ideally, the CellServDB on > clients is for legacy use with old cells > > Sadly, there are loads of situations where the client CellServDB is vital. > There are far too many SOHO broadband routers that come with DNS servers > that silently drop DNS SRV requests. If you are supporting a mobile > userbase, you pretty much have to provide them with static configuration, > both for AFS, and for Kerberos. > This (and Russ's observation) is why I said "ideally". The real world is rarely ideal.... -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
