[545] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
RE: Changing DB server IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer C)
Mon Jan 20 07:59:44 1992
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 92 9:22 GMT
From: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <CC012@cranfield.ac.uk>
To: JM36@andrew.cmu.edu, info-afs@transarc.com
> I believe the most correct solution is to never change the IP
> addresses of your DB servers once you've advertised their existence.
> That's the approach we take here.
This may be a useful workaround, but does not represent a "correct
solution". The problem is that the onus for propagating updates rests
not on the individual site (once its updated the authoritative
CellServDB) or Transarc, but the rest of the world of AFS users
(including me). Why should we? I have better things to do.
I'd like to add my voice to the request for a properly delegated
distributed database, BIND/Hesiod style. Until then, Transarc should
supply a program which regularly reports back local server addresses,
and picks up the latest authoritative CellServDB, so that we don't all
have to do it manually. It should not rely on the cell having
/afs/transarc.com mounted, because there may be good reasons not to.
Peter Lister p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
Computer Centre,
Cranfield Institute of Technology, Voice: +44 234 750111 ext 3157
Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL England Fax: +44 234 750875
