[297] in Zephyr Mailing List
Re: undead zwgcs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 15 13:21:09 1998
To: sfreed@gilasoft.com
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:11:22 MDT."
<Pine.BSI.4.02.9809151008240.4314-100000@taos.gilasoft.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:18:17 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Our mail server has 3 network interfaces. Only one out of 3 messages
> gets delivered. The zephyr server gets the following message:
> zephyrd[16486]: sendit unauthentic fake packet: claimed 204.134.12.100,\
> real 192.160.121.100
> zephyrd[16486]: sendit unauthentic fake packet: claimed 192.160.121.161,\
> real 192.160.121.100
> What's happening is each time it it querying namservice and getting
> a different answer back in a round-robbin. So it works every 3rd
> time.
The zephyr server never does any DNS queries; it can't afford to
block. It sounds like the client is at issue here.
> Why don't we try to put a release together? ...something that will
> do for another threee years or so :-). Let's try to fix the known
> issues and make a release. I'd be happy to help. I've got the ss and
> et libs here, but I don't know how this has all changed in the
> athena tree. The multi-homed problem shouldn't be too difficult to
> fix.
> If someone at MIT is willing to work with me and make available to
> me the files I need to build zephyr outside the Athena tree, I can
> make the build package to put on the athena-dist ftp site.
If you have AFS, you can go to
/afs/dev.mit.edu/source/src-current/athena/lib/{et,ss,zephyr}. If you
don't have AFS, there are AFS to HTTP gateways on web.mit.edu and
www.mit.edu, so e.g. http://web.mit.edu/pathname will get you a file
or directory listing.
