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Re: [Debathena] #124: De-crustify the CellServDB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Fri Mar 6 19:09:12 2009
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:02:59 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Tom Fitzgerald <tfitz@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Tom Fitzgerald wrote:
> But there's no reason to have CellServDB entries for cells that
> *do* have AFSDB records - they'll be handled correctly.
>
Yes. That's roughly my point.
> The CellServDB needs to contain cells that don't have AFSDB
> records, if anyone might care about them.
>
I'm not suggesting we (or g.c.o) should remove cells that are still
online and don't have AFSDB records.
> And I still don't think anybody here is in a position to decide
> what cells are closely related to MIT. Any Athena user in any
> department may feel that some random cell is closely related to
> MIT because it has data he cares about. If that cell lacks
> AFSDB records and isn't in Athena's CellServDB then he is going
> to be stuck troubleshooting something he should not need to.
>
In terms of "closely related to MIT", I basically mean "cells whose name
ends with mit.edu", as a failsafe in case of DNS apocalypse.
- Evan
