[1850] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Problems with example application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Mar 28 19:07:23 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:07:15 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: nitin kumar <nkumar@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1849] in Kerberos-V5-bugs"
The most likely cause of your problems is with your name resolver
libraries. Many name resolvers which have been infected with the taint
of Yellow Peril (or NIS) do not correctly return the fully qualified
domain name in their implementation of gethostbyname() or
gethostbyaddr(). This can also be cuased by a misconfigured /etc/hosts
file.
The Kerberos library depends on being able to determine the fully
qualified domain name of both its own hostname, and of servers. If this
is failing, this can cause the error message which you reported.
- Ted
