[2416] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos domainname?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerald Pulver)
Wed Dec 2 16:50:48 1992
Date: 2 Dec 92 15:28:19 GMT
From: gp@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gerald Pulver)
Reply-To: gp@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gerald Pulver)
To: kerberos@shelby.Stanford.EDU
In article <1992Dec2.134834.23188@lth.se> jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
>Athena uses a domainname with upper-case characters, ATHENA.MIT.EDU.
>
>What is the main reason for this?
I would imagine that this convention was adopted to distinguish between
system/domain names and kerberos 'Realms'.