-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:47:58 -0400 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:43:42 +0200 > "Alexander Boström" <abo@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > While I do believe Kerberos protocols, libs or apps should be > > smarter about these things sometimes and I'm not sure what really > > happens here (though I've seen this happen a few times) I really do > > think Kerberos is in its right to complain when it's fed lies. If > > you put the hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line, doesn't that override > > everything DNS says? > > Almost every single location I take my laptop there is no dns entry > for my hostname. Relying upon every hostname to be DNS resolvable is > extremely dated thinking. > We use Kerberos here. I have the notebooks hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line in my /etc/hosts file. Kerberos doesn't complain. IMNSHO, the /etc/hosts file is only for making sure that the box can resolve itself regardless of what's going on with whatever network(s) it's plugged into at the moment. Period. There are plenty of daemons that will grumble if you use names in the configuration and it can't resolve them (like MTAs, for example, in some parts of their configs). - -- Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] NOTE: All messages from this email address should be digitally signed with my 0xDC0DD409 GPG key. It is available on the pgp.mit.edu keyserver as well as other keyservers that sync with MIT's. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG/TRn+YBsl9wN1AkRAvBUAKCitlYkA1fAMRXfPbBVVkTyWKvq8ACeOo+n oHDUA439wOjtm7bYVSHmb6w= =xPIa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
