If its one host or your own private network, you don't have to use DNS, matching /etc/hosts files will do. And you could use unqualified names but then you could never join the rest of the internet. Your example impled that you where uisng the internet, but nslookup can't find phusnikn.net.
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Raeburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>On Jan 10, 2006, at 03:27, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> >>>Quoting "Douglas E. Engert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>>The kadmin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] should be kadmin/ >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>i.e. host names in Kerberos are always FQDN. >>> >>>Just for completeness, my extream curiosity etc. Why EXACTLY is >>>that. If the >>>DNS works perfectly (both forward and reverse), then it should be >>>possible to >>>NOT have the FQDN... ? >> >>There may be hosts from multiple subdomains in one realm. For >>example, foo.dev.example.com and foo.sales.example.com; if you use >>only the first component, host/[EMAIL PROTECTED] corresponds to which...? >> >> >>>And why not use IP's (other than if the IP change, the >>>key is invalid)? > > > Oki, point taken. I'm trying to put this information into my own > use, and I only have _one_ machine called 'foo', so that/this reason > isn't valid for _me_. > > >>Isn't that a pretty good reason right there? > > > Absolutly! I was wondering if there where any other, not so obvious > ones :) > > >>Also, a host may have multiple IP addresses. (Then again, it may >>also have multiple names....) > > > True, but (again), in my usage there's only _one_ 'primary' IP, the > rest is "sub-IP's" (used for SSL sites etc, nothing else). > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > > -- Douglas E. Engert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439 (630) 252-5444 ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
