[518] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: Can two zephyr servers link together?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Thu Feb 3 12:37:43 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 12:38:55 EST
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@security.ov.com>
To: pirmann@lehman.com (David Pirmann)
Cc: zephyr-bugs@MIT.EDU, johnc@lehman.com
In-Reply-To: [517]
From: pirmann@lehman.com (David Pirmann)
Cc: johnc@lehman.com
If there is more than one Zephyr server running on our network...
and some workstations are identified with another ...
can a user on server1 send a message to a user on
server2 without knowing that there's more than one server?
Yes, absolutely; that is the whole point of Zephyr.
The trick is that each Zephyr server needs to know about every other
Zephyr server in the realm. If you are not using Hesiod, list all of
the servers in the file "server.list" wherever you've compiled your
servers to look for it (e.g. /usr/local/zephyr). You should also tell
each zhm about all the servers; to do that, just list them all on the
command line when you run it.
If you are using Hesiod, just put multiple values in the zephyr.sloc
entry.
Once you've done that, the servers will work together as a unit. Load
balancing occurs automatically.
Barry
