Re: aklog and AFS DB server timeouts

RL <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On windows, entering the server entries in the file/
/

/   c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts/

/might help?  Maybe give it a try on the clients?/

/
/

/Regards, R.
/



On 1/29/21 8:44 PM, Jeffrey E Altman wrote:
> Rainer,
>
> OpenAFS UNIX/Linux clients and server only use the IP addresses in the//
> CellServDB file.  The fully qualified domain names are only used by
> OpenAFS Windows clients.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
> On 1/29/2021 2:38 PM, RL ([email protected]) wrote:
>> On the relevant clients, are all three with full name in /etc/hosts ?
>> Else failure is standard as
>>
>>    192.168.*.*
>> is a private thingie that never gets resolved with DNS
>> Regards, R.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> On 1/29/21 7:32 PM, A. Lewenberg wrote:
>>> On our buster servers the OpenAFS client (1.8.2) has an issue with
>>> provisioning an AFS token. When I attempt to get an AFS token it very
>>> often takes a long time.
>>>
>>> $ aklog (this can up to 30 seconds or more)
>>>
>>> After some investigation it looks like aklog is trying the AFS DB
>>> servers listed in /etc/openafs/CellSrvDB and timing out on some of the
>>> DB servers. Here is the relevant contents of that file:
>>>
>>>> example.com           # My Company
>>> 192.168.1.102                    #afsdb1.example.com
>>> 192.168.1.104                    #afsdb2.example.com
>>> 192.168.1.106                    #afsdb3.example.com
>>>
>>> Running aklog and sniffing the network I see that the client attempts
>>> to contact one of the three afsdb servers. If the one it chooses to
>>> contact first is afsdb2 or afsdb3 the connection does not succeed
>>> until it finally gives up and tries anther one. If the second one it
>>> tries is afsdb2 or afsdb3 it gives up and tries the only remaining
>>> one: afsdb1. In other words:
>>>
>>> afsdb3 (fail), afsdb2 (fail), afsdb1 (succeeds)
>>> afsdb2 (fail), afsdb3 (fail), afsdb1 (succeeds)
>>> afsdb3 (fail), afsdb1 (succeeds)
>>> afsdb2 (fail), afsdb1 (succeeds)
>>> afsdb1 (succeeds)
>>>
>>> This sounds like both afsdb2 and afsdb3 are simply not working.
>>> However...
>>>
>>> If I remove afsdb1 and afsdb2 from the CellSrvDB leaving only afsdb3
>>> it works instantly every time! That is, the following CellSrvDB works
>>> without delay:
>>>
>>>> ir.example.com           # My Company
>>> 192.168.1.106                    #afsdb3.example.com
>>>
>>> Similarly, if afsdb2 is the only entry in CellSrvDB running aklog
>>> works without delay. So it cannot be that afsdb2 and afsdb3 are
>>> completely broken.
>>>
>>> The AFS DB servers are running OpenAFS version 1.6.9.
>>>
>>> What the heck is going on?
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