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Re: nitpick on hostname

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Wed Jun 4 13:44:46 1997

From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Matt Braun <matt@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 13:26:38 EDT."
             <199706041726.NAA21116@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:43:24 EDT


I agree that hostnames should not be case sensitive, but the reality is that
kerberos is and that makes for a potential problem.

In a related note (I apologize for my ignorance here), did you change
'hostname' to return a FQDN for 8.1? 


			Matt


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