NAME
CellServDB —
AFS cells and database
servers
DESCRIPTION
The file CellServDB lists AFS cells known
to the local AFS cache manager. Each entry describes the name of an AFS cell
and specifies the servers for that cell.
Here is an example of the format of an entry in the file:
>cellname # Freetext comment describing the cell ip-address #first.server.for.cell ip-address #second.server.for.cell ip-address #third.server.for.cell
CellServDB is read when
arlad is started, normally when the system
boots.
The text after the # is not a comment, it's the hostname of the db-server, and it's used to lookup the address. The address is only used when the hostname is not found in DNS.
Entries in the file are searched and expanded by many programs.
In most cases it is better to distribute the information in
CellServDB with the AFSDB DNS resource records. This
avoids having out of date information in
CellServDB.
When using AFSDB DNS resource records, entries entries should still be listed, but without any hosts. This is needed for dynroot to work.
FILES
/etc/afs/CellServDB
SEE ALSO
fs(1), AliasDB(5), DynRootDB(5), ThisCell(5), afsd.conf(5), afsd(8)