Null realms and servers

[Russ Allbery]

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:51:05AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I believe assuming the default realm will be accurate in significantly
>> more circumstances than using any algorithm based on the name of the
>> system.

> Certainly not in multi-realm environemts, and in any case, in a
> zero-conf environment there is no default realm: one has to be
> discovered.

That's great, but this change makes life much more difficult for existing
sites.  Please do not do that.  Please do not break existing sites when
you're trying to deploy new things.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>