/etc/hosts on a Kerberos client

[James McBride]

Dear Kerberos Support Analyst:

Oracle Support is reporting that MIT Kerberos requires that the FQDN of a
Kerberos client must be in the /etc/hosts file.  They provided the URL
below as a reference:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.3/krb5-1.3.1
/doc/krb5-admin.html#Getting%20DNS%20Information%20Correct

We feel that Kerberos can use DNS and the operating system to determine the
FQDN of a machine.

Please provide your perspective on this.

Thanks In Advance,


Jim McBride
Oracle Deployment and Support
IBM Corporation
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