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Re: can someone make KClient handle athena.dialup.mit.edu?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 25 18:41:14 1994

From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 18:28:28 -0400
To: jon@cam.ov.com
Cc: KRBDEV-L@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU, tytso@MIT.EDU, kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9408252209.AA17647@kung-pao-chi-ding.aktis.com> (jon@cam.ov.com)

>I don't like this very much.  You are proposed to rely on the DNS to
>provide security information

As you pointed out, get_phost already does this.

>and assumning that you *can* reverse resolve in the first place.

My code falls back on old behavior if the reverse resolve fails.

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