On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0700, Henry B. Hotz wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > > Will Fiveash wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:29:55PM -0500, Douglas E. Engert wrote: > >> > >>> For what it is worth, Kerberos usually want the hostname command to > >>> return > >>> the FQDN, rather then the short name. We always install a new system from > >>> the start using the FQDN. > >>> > >> > >> It shouldn't matter. Here inside Sun the norm is for hostname to be set > >> to the short form. > >> > > Which is where I picked up the habit. ;) > > I've picked up the opposite habit. I believe other Kerberos distro's may be > less forgiving than Sun in that respect. > > OTOH, maybe it has to do with other resolver-related configuration. If > /etc/nsswitch.conf contains: > > hosts: files dns > > and /etc/nodename, /etc/hostname.* and/or /etc/hosts contain the short name, > then don't you get the short name back from a reverse DNS lookup? As they > said in Ghostbusters, that would be "bad". > > Anyone care to elaborate on the issues?
In /etc/nsswitch.conf I have: hosts: files dns nis ipnodes: files dns nis On my system the hostname command returns: alton and the reverse DNS lookup for alton's IP address returns: $ nslookup 129.122.128.101 Server: 129.123.31.27 Address: 129.123.31.27#53 101.128.122.129.in-addr.arpa name = alton.Central.Sun.COM. -- Will Fiveash Sun Microsystems Inc. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/ Sent from mutt, a sweet ASCII MUA
