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Re: another (different) KDC name resolution question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Mon Feb 22 18:38:56 2010

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: Abe Singer <abe@ligo.caltech.edu>
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Abe Singer <abe@ligo.caltech.edu> writes:

> Well, that at least explains it.

> You could call it a misfeature, or just an unanticipated consequence.
> I suspect what we're doing here is a rare case.

Actually, you are far from the only person to have had trouble with this.
It's one of the more frequent complaints about the library behavior that
I've seen, and it can cause some significant delays if one's DNS resolver
is slow for some reason.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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