Re: a question about CellServDB and DNS alias

Jeffrey E Altman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.general
Organization AuriStor, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 3/23/2022 11:15 AM, Giovanni Bracco ([email protected]) wrote:
> In the documentation for the CellServDB file (both client & server)
> https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/5/CellServDB.html
>
> it is declared that is the "fully qualified hostname"
> that must be provided in the line defining a dbserver.

The specified DNS hostname can either be an A record or a CNAME record.

The hostname is only used by the Windows Cache Manager, Windows
authentication provider, and Windows network provider.

All of the command line tools, the UNIX cache manager, and the servers
only use the specified IP address.

Jeffrey Altman
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