[14559] in Kerberos
Re: Solaris 8 and libresolv
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security)
Tue Jun 12 08:54:16 2001
From: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.Com (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer)
Date: 11 Jun 2001 19:59:23 GMT
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flaminio <Livio.Flaminio@agat.univ-lille1.fr> writes:
>has anybody compiled Kerberos 1.2.2 under Solaris 8 ?
>gmake[2]: Entering directory
>`/site/src/krb5/krb5-1.2.2/sparc/tests/resolve'
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`echo -L../../lib | sed -e "s/-L//g" -e "s/ /:/g"`;
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; ./resolve
>Hostname: MY-UNQUALIFIED-HOSTNAME
>Host address: MY_IP_NO
>FQDN: MY-UNQUALIFIED-HOSTNAME
>Resolve library did not return a fully qualified domain name
>You may have to reconfigure the kerberos distribution to select a
This basically indicates a brokeness in your local configuration.
Solaris is differennt from other systems in that linking w/ -lresolv
does not force the use of the DNS reosolved for gethostbyname().
The reasonf or this is simple, we believe that it is inappropriate for
an application to have a compiled in hostname resolution policy that
contradicts the one laid down by the system administrator.
But it thus give the system adminsitartor an extra burden: to make applciation
that require gethostbyname() to return an FQDN, he must configure
NIS/NIS+ and /etc/hosts such that they return a FQDN; that something
you didn't do.
You can also download a Sun supported version of Kerberos from www.sun.com.
Casper
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