[8542] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Marking a DB server to never be the sync site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus Watts)
Tue Mar 13 20:19:32 2001
Message-Id: <200103140112.UAA12744@quince.ifs.umich.edu>
To: John Lockard <jlockard@umich.edu>
cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:31:44 EST."
<20010313193144.D1970@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:12:20 -0500
From: Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu>
I had said:
> > The simple solution is definitely to give the remote machines the highest
> > two IP addresses. The sync site is the lowest working address, and
> > a majority (3 in this case) of machines is required to establish quorum,
> > so this is very close to meeting your needs.
John Lockard <jlockard@umich.edu> had said:
>
> Easiest solution? Okay, even here at the U of Michigan that isn't
> easy. I've got two sites. 141.211.184 and 141.211.203 the .184
> site is my remote site, but has the low IP address, just how easy
> do you think it will be to get another subnet from UMich, let alone
> someone working with "normal" nets?
Actually, I only claimed "simple", not "easy", and my main point
was that the code already almost does the right thing.
Although, now that you mention it, I believe I'm in the same building
as the UMnet folks, and 184 and 203 are just arbitrary numbers on
the same fiber ring - I'm sure they'd be willing to swap the two numbers
given sufficient encouragement...
-Marcus Watts
UM ITCS Umich Systems Group
