Host Alias

Donn Cave donn at u.washington.edu
Tue Mar 25 12:09:08 EST 2003


| I have come across a usability issue where users of a network I plan
| to implement Kerberos on are currently accustomed to host aliases.
| i.e: typing 'ftp foo' instead of 'ftp foo.my.long.host.name.com.' 
| 
| Anyone have advice on how to get around using fully qualified hostnames
| for Kerberos host principals? 

On the contrary, you certainly should use fully qualified hostnames
for Kerberos host principals.  That also should work, that is, you
should be able to type 'ftp foo' and it should be automatically
expanded to the full domain name.  If it isn't, the reason is likely
the short comes before the full name in /etc/hosts.  The same is
true of "alias" names in the DNS CNAME sense, that they should just
work in current implementations (though perhaps not forever, if I
read the draft right.)

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu


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