[OpenAFS] Re: is there any good reason to use capialized names for new realms?

[Adam Megacz]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> much you tell them.  However, you asked for advice, and Russ operates
> what as far as I know is the largest and longest-lived example of a
> realm that has deviated from convention in this way.  I'd listen to
> him if I were you.

Okay, sounds good.  Thanks, Russ; I'm pretty lucky to be able to learn
from your experiences.  This is the sort of thing that I would've
blindly plunged into (in the name of elegance) without your advice.

So, to summarize, I guess the basic problem is that a lot of
"applications" (ie things that use libkrb, such as AFS) assume that to
get the realm of a host, you take its hostname, truncate some leading
portion, and capitalize what's left.  Instead of this, those apps
ought to be letting libkrb figure this out (which it will do using DNS
entries, thereby using the capitalization of the DNS TXT record, which
can be assumed to be correct).  But there are too many apps out there
that don't do this, so it's going to be painful to break this
assumption anytime in the forseeable future.

Does that sound right?

  - a

-- 
PGP/GPG: 5C9F F366 C9CF 2145 E770  B1B8 EFB1 462D A146 C380