Problem with KfW 2.1.1 at Lincoln Labs - getting K5, but not K4 ticket ???

[Jonathan McIndoe Hunt]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the idea.  I checked the debug response on a machine that is 
working and got the same two dots and it worked.

Jon

At 03:06 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
>I'm not especially familiar with the exact code base used by KfW for
>krb4 support; it's different from the code we use on UNIX, but there's
>some common history.
>
> > lrealm is ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> > krb_udp_port is 88
> > Getting host entry for kerberos.mit.edu..
> > Didn't get it.
> > krb_udp_port is 88
> > Getting host entry for kerberos-1.mit.edu..
> > Didn't get it.
> > krb_udp_port is 88
> > Getting host entry for kerberos-2.mit.edu..
> > Didn't get it.
> > send_to_kdc: can't find any Kerberos host.
>
>If the KfW code isn't too different from the current UNIX code, this
>indicates that gethostbyname() failed on the indicated hostname.  One
>thing here that catches my attention is the two dots after each
>hostname.  In the UNIX code, there are three dots added, so this is
>likely a small point of divergence.  If the KfW code is adding only
>one, then the hostnames you're getting have trailing dots (standard
>with BIND-like resolvers or maybe DNS in general to indicate a fully
>qualified name) and maybe those are giving Windows some problems?  If
>KfW is adding two dots, then that part of the output looks fine, and
>I'm not sure why the hostname lookup would be failing....