[33556] in Kerberos
Re: RFC: Turning off reverse hostname resolution by default in 1.10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Fiveash)
Wed Jul 6 18:13:36 2011
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:13:21 -0500
From: Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:27:24PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> We are considering turning off rdns by default in MIT krb5 1.10. In
> the past we've shied away from changing the default because we've been
> afraid of creating upgrade pain. But after consideration, we're not
> sure there's likely to be much impact.
>
> Does anyone on this list intentionally rely on PTR lookups for
> Kerberos hostname canonicalization?
Solaris has never supported rdns hostname lookups by default. I am not
aware of any complaints.
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Will Fiveash
Oracle
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