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Douglas E. Engert wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Jeffrey Altman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Looking at the patch and the MIT WSHelper code I have to wonder whether
the WSHelper which is being shipped with KX509 is out of date or out of
sync with the MIT distribution. As far as I can tell the code you have
identified as being the problem should never be executed on 2000 and XP
because those systems support the IPHelper API.
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Well that might explain why I have not gotten any reports of problems
with the Kerberos code.
The UMich res_init.c code matches the MIT, except that they made it more
standalone by including some header info in to the code. The code itself
did not appear to be changed.
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If this is the case, I would be extremely interested in knowing why the
IPHelper code is not be used instead of the search through the Registry.<br>
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<pre wrap="">All they really need is to lookup a srv record. Is there some easy way
in W2K to do this? (For W2k could they just use the DnsQuery functions?)</pre>
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I see no reason why you could not use DnsQuery()<br>
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provided that they only need to support Win2000 or above.<br>
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