ssh to IP literal

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Mon Dec 13 13:03:17 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 00:34 -0500, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Well, it poses a problem for domain to realm mappings, as you've seen.

What Russ says is true, but on top of that, the Kerberos library also
needs to know what service ticket to ask for.  It's likely that the
client tried to get tickets for host/10.14.134.5 at defaultrealm before
falling back to guessing 14.134.5 as the realm.

The proximal issue is that you need a reverse DNS entry for 10.14.134.5.
(Reliance on DNS for this purpose is a long-standing security issue, but
we still do it.)





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