CELLSERVDB(5)

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 This avoids having out of date information in CellServDB.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)