On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:38:04PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Lee Eric wrote:
>
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Thanks. Just curious, how kinit queries the DNS server? Is it using
> > /etc/resolv.conf?
>
> The krb5 library (which is what kinit uses) uses the libc resolver, which
> should honor /etc/resolv.conf.
To be precise, it should use the NSS framework and honour
/etc/nsswitch.conf and so on. To test what the host thinks,
you can use the same logic via getent(1) on most platforms
via:
$ getent hosts <hostname>
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Roland Dowdeswell http://Imrryr.ORG/~elric/
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