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MIT kadmin not using DNS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard E. Silverman)
Mon Jan 26 21:16:29 2009

From: "Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:45:44 -0500
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A (I hope) quick question: I see claims in various places (including the
O'Reilly Kerberos book), that kadmin will use DNS SRV records to locate the
admin server -- but it doesn't seem to.  The Solaris derivative *does* do
this, and works for us, but running MIT kadmin in the same environment
requires the admin_server parameter in krb5.conf.

Any ideas?

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net

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