RFC: Turning off reverse hostname resolution by default in 1.10

Stephen Frost sfrost at snowman.net
Thu Jul 7 12:24:23 EDT 2011


* ghudson at MIT.EDU (ghudson at MIT.EDU) wrote:
> Does anyone on this list intentionally rely on PTR lookups for
> Kerberos hostname canonicalization?

Yes, all the time.  Dealing with the Windows world and cross-realm,
where a machine can only ever have one name, has always been very
painful, I'd hate to see MIT Kerberos go the same way.

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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