Possible to use only IP addresses in MIT Kerberos (ie: disable DNS name resolution)?

[Brian Davidson]

My understanding is that the process for determining what service 
principal to obtain for a server involves doing gethostbyaddr( 
gethostbyname() ).  That is, find the IP for the given host, and then 
find the name associated with that IP.  Then ask the KDC for a ticket 
for host/name.

So, you don't have to use DNS, but you must have resolvable names.

Brian

On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:

> rchowneltura at hotmail.com writes:
>
>> Has anybody had success in configuring only IP addresses
>> in MIT Kerberos5, or perhaps give me any tips?
>
> when i had to deploy krb5 without dns, i had to distribute an 
> /etc/hosts file.
> -- 
> Paul Vixie