[3193] in testers
Re: nitpick on hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 4 13:27:58 1997
To: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, 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 13:17:53 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:26:38 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Let my clarify this...when the clusters update will the machine say
> it is BARKER-7 or barker-7?
I have no clue; what's in the rc.conf file on that machine? Looking
at sourcery suggests that newly installed machines generally get
lowercase hostnames, but particular machines might not.
> 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.
"ksrvtgt rcmd `hostname`" will break if the hostname is not in
lowercase. Although this isn't necessarily a bug in ksrvtgt,
hostnames are not supposed to be case-sensitive and requiring
hostnames to be lowercase is highly questionable.
I'm not sure what the best course of action is. There might be a way
to use snmp to figure out how many machines would be affected.
