Hi,

> I'm up for suggestions.  But we do need some way to 'ping' the AFS servers so
> that the client knows if it can safely come up without hanging.

Adding -dynroot to the afsd options should avoid hangs as well, at least
as long as no cell is actually accessed.
And it should not cause any problems - unless a cell has anything in its
root.afs volume that's not a mount point for a cell. But then, if the
clients depend on it, they probably need AFS to work correctly at all.

Cheers,
        Stephan

>
> Troy
>
> Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am beginning with SL and found that the network test based on wget
> > in /etc/init.d/afs fails with most sites, preventing afs client to
> > start although it would work...
> >
> > For example, incoming TCP to port 7000 on the afs servers if filtered
> > on the IN2P3 site. It fails on the CERN as well.
> >
> > Somebody noticed this also ?
> >
> > Should this network test be done in another manner... ?
> >
> > Jean-Michel BARBET.
> >
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