Problems using Kerberos telnet

Someone please at nospam.net
Fri Mar 22 01:59:38 EST 2002


Donn Cave wrote:

> Quoth wyllys at eng.sun.com (Wyllys Ingersoll):
> ...
> | This is the problem.  Is the hostname you entered at the client prompt 
> | the same as the name
> | of the server that is stored in the KDC?  It may be a DNS issue, try 
> | specifying the
> | fully-qualified hostname when you make your connection from the client.
> |
> | A look at the KDC logs might help clear this up.
> 
> While we're on the subject, I find that the Heimdal telnet on my
> NetBSD 1.5.2 host fails to do a reverse lookup to determine the
> service host's canonical name.  That's probably a bug.  MIT clients
> do this more or less universally, in krb5_sname_to_principal().
> 
> This is probably not the problem our nameless correspondent "Someone"
> is having, but I believe he is using Heimdal too.
> 
> 	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu
> 

Well actually no, I am using MIT Kerberos v1.2.3.

Regards




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