Re: editfiles methodology question

[Mark Burgess]

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. 
> >