Bug 97480

Summary:	OpenAFS Server may break client if DNS not up
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tommie <d00-tga>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) <stefaan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	net-fs
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tommie 2005-06-30 04:59:03 UTC

Since OpenAFS is pretty fragile, it is not surprising that the server can break 
the client.

My problem was the vlserver and ptserver wouldn't start (bosserver gave up 
after 13 tries) because /etc/hosts didn't have a mapping of my hostname to IP. 
I rely on the DNS server on the same machine. However, since afs.server doesn't 
depend on DNS, this would happen every reboot. The result was my AFS client (on 
localhost) crashed in kernel and would not start again.

I suggest adding a "after dns" in the depend of afs.server, much in the line of 
doing a "after afs.server" in afs.client. This means the script will work for 
users with /etc/hosts and with DNS.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-30 14:30:07 UTC

OpenAFS needs a developer to take up maintenance.

Comment 2 Gerte Hoogewerf 2005-07-02 05:45:09 UTC

I'm would like to maintain the ebuilds.

Comment 3 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-02 05:50:16 UTC

In order to maintain a package, you need to be a Gentoo developer.
To see what is needed to become a developer, please read
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml.

Comment 4 Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-01 17:50:28 UTC

Added "use dns" to both afs-client and afs-server init-scripts.  See
openafs-1.4.0rc2.