[1419] in SIPB_Linux_Development
sipb filsys entries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 4 14:25:30 1996
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:24:29 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: hesreq@MIT.EDU
Cc: buf-sipb@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Currently, "hesinfo sipb filsys" returns:
AFS /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb n /mit/sipb
AFS /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/sipb n /mit/sipb
A long-standing problem with the sipb locker is that the athena cell
version gets mounted on operating systems using newer versions of
BIND, which do not necessarily return records in the same order as
they came from the DNS server.
To address this problem, SIPB has developed a patch for "attach" to
interpret preference fields at the end of filsys entries. I plan to
incorporate this patch into the mainline Athena sources at some point
as well. Lower preferences have priority. Therefore, I would like
Moira modified so that "hesinfo sipb filsys" returns:
AFS /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb n /mit/sipb 1
AFS /afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/sipb n /mit/sipb 2
This way, people with the new attach will always get the sipb cell
version if it can be read. Older versions of attach and other
applications will ignore the preference fields; I've tested this by
putting the above entries for sipb.filsys.ns.athena.mit.edu in the
named.local of all of the SIPB office machines, almost all of which
are using the old attach.
I've been told by Dan Winship that this change is a simple hack to
hesiod.gen.
