The AFS BOS Server — the process that starts, stops, and restarts every other AFS server daemon.
IANA registers 7007 as afs3-bos, the basic overseer process. bosserver runs on every AFS file and database server, reads BosConfig to know which daemons to keep alive, and answers bos commands to start, stop, restart, and salvage them. It is the control plane of an AFS cell: whoever can issue authenticated bos commands controls what runs on the server. Like the rest of AFS it uses Rx over UDP.
Do not expose
This is remote process control for the whole cell; restrict it to the AFS server network and rely on Kerberos-authenticated admin principals, never on reachability alone.
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