The campus DNS servers are getting an update in the next few days, which 
will include changing the way that AFS clients look up information about 
the AFS cell database servers from DNS.

All AFS clients released for the last several years know how to query DNS 
in the new way, so we do not expect to have problems, with one exception:

Any client configured to use an EMPTY CellServDB file, will NOT be able to 
automatically locate the authentication (kaserver) server, and so won't be 
able to authenticate.  At one point I was recommending this configuration 
to Mac users, since it removes the dependency on a local configuration 
file, but since every Mac client release replaces that file with a new 
version, I doubt if many clients are still configured that way.

Windows clients are very unlikely to have been set up this way, so should 
not have a problem.

If anyone has a problem authenticating, please contact Research Computing 
for instructions on fixing the problem.  We will be releasing a script to 
automate the process.

Authentication can also be done at the command line, explicitly specifying 
the authentication server to use, by opening a Terminal window and 
running:

  klog AFSUSERNAME -servers halley.dartmouth.edu

- and replace AFSUSERNAME with the appropriate name.

  Richard

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Richard Brittain,  Research Computing Group,
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