Re: Problem building a Debian package in AFS == RX CID bug

On 9/11/2021 10:57 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> buster:
> Trying 192.168.225.188 (port 7001):
> AFS version: OpenAFS 1.8.2-1+deb10u1-debian 2021-07-21 root@buster-server

This is a totally broken client because of the RX CID bug and it cannot
successfully communicate with any AFS location server or file server. 
Executing

  rxdebug localhost 7001 -allconn -onlyclient

after attempting to access /afs should show a number of connections
whose CID is 80000000.  Every connection between a client and a server
is required to have a unique CID.  If more than one connection has the
80000000 CID then the communication between the peers will be unsuccessful.

The Debian build of OpenAFS labeled version 1.8.6-5 for bullseye
contains a fix for the RX CID bug as does any OpenAFS tagged release
1.8.7 or later.   As indicated by 

  https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=openafs

the latest buster package of OpenAFS is 1.8.2-1+deb10u1 which does not
contain the RX CID fix. 

You can build and deploy a later OpenAFS or you can use the AuriStorFS
client that your employer licenses.

Jeffrey Altman