Implementing IETF Draft on DNS use in Kerberos

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jul 19 23:10:00 EDT 2002


Sam Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Yes.  Note however a security problem exists when the DNS support is
> used for determining something other than the local realm.

True.  Hopefully DNSSEC will mitigate this threat (if/when it gets
deployed ;)

-derek
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