I disagree with them. On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:09 -0800, Eli Stair wrote: > I'm not the expert on this (as I haven't READ the relevant RFC's), but > for instance when running Kerberos and Oracle (and probably other auth > software as well) the best practice (and it's been stated RFC-compliant > method) is to return FQDN for hostname lookups. > > Not doing so will result in improper/non-functional Kerberos with > tickets not applying to a host or service (been there). Oracle can > break all authenticated connectivity (been there too). They even go so > far as to recommend defining FQDN in /etc/hosts for all Oracle hosts to > bypass any DNS/system-level problems with resolution. > > Very over-simplified example, but a valid one I've had to deal with. > > /eli > > > > > This is normal if you have fully qualified names returned by your > > hostname lookup, which is not something I recommend. > >
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