[2286] in Kerberos_V5_Development
["Tony Mione" ] DNS lookups for Host Realm information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Fri Mar 7 11:19:14 1997
To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 07 Mar 1997 11:16:48 -0500
I don't know how many users would find this useful or whether it would
be worth supporting, but something to think about.
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From: "Tony Mione" <mione@boeing.rutgers.edu>
Message-Id: <9703061027.ZM589@boeing.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:27:33 -0500
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Subject: DNS lookups for Host Realm information
Cc: mione@hardees.Rutgers.EDU
We are looking into upgrading to Kerberos v5 1.0 (from Kerberos 5
Beta 2!). There are a few local modifications that Rutgers has used through
the years. We are trying to bring up the new kerberos with as few changes
as possible. Here's the question. One local feature we rely on is called
the 'DNS hack'. We leave out the realm (we use a '+' in the config file)
and the library queries DNS. Each host's DNS entry contains information on
which realm the host is in. This helps us distribute a unified
configuration file since the realm does not need to be specified there. It
also helps with authenticating in other realms for services provided there.
My question is, if we reimplemented that change in version 1.0,
would mit kerberos team be willing to taking the change and incorporate it
into the next release of Kerberos? The actual code is not very large (1-2
dozen lines). I am asking since it may not be worth it to try to put this
code in and support it for each new release. So I would like to have some
idea if it is worth the effort.
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Tony Mione, RUCS/NS, Rutgers University, Hill 055, Piscataway,NJ - 908-445-0650
mione@nbcs-ns.rutgers.edu W3: http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/~mione/
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