[3192] in testers
Re: nitpick on hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Wed Jun 4 13:19:16 1997
From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Matt Braun <mhbraun@MIT.EDU>, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>,
Aurora Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:03:02 EDT."
<199706041703.NAA21084@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:17:53 EDT
> What things?
>
> Anyway, it's a desired change; the hostname is merely propagated from
> rc.conf to /etc/nodename, /etc/hosts, etc. People notice when they
> have uppercase hostnames in rc.conf but had lowercase hostnames
> elsewhere.
Let my clarify this...when the clusters update will the machine say it is
BARKER-7 or barker-7?
As for what breaks...situations where people print a tgt and use that (loggers
and such). I am pretty sure krbtgp does not deal with upcased hostnames, I am
not sure about krbtgt.
Matt
