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Re: hierarchical realms

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gardiner Myers)
Tue Sep 20 22:52:21 1994

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 17:14:34 -0400
From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>

orion@iastate.edu (Phi H Truong) writes:
> .vincent.iastate.edu IASTATE.EDU
> .cc.iastate.edu IASTATE.EDU
> .iastate.edu IASTATE.EDU
...

I'd have to say this is one of the most annoying mis-designs of the
implementation.  A single line

.iastate.edu IASTATE.EDU

should suffice--the library should look for the longest matching
entry.  But no, there has to be one entry for each non-leaf name.


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