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Re: RFC: Turning off reverse hostname resolution by default in 1.10

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Cusack)
Wed Jul 6 20:09:00 2011

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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:27 AM, <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote:

> Does anyone on this list intentionally rely on PTR lookups for
> Kerberos hostname canonicalization?
>

Yes, for "ssh host".  In our case, the canonicalization is done by the ssh
client itself though, not by the krb5 library.  Now that I'm aware of the
issue I plan to use KDC aliases instead.  Does current MIT support that?
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