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

Adam Megacz megacz@cs.berkeley.edu
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:02:23 -0800


Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Hm, I'm not sure that anything like that *could* exist.  The RFCs are
> concerned with the on-the-wire protocol; locally configured mappings would
> be outside their scope.  MIT Kerberos and Heimdal are different
> implementations that could well use different logic.  Shishi is yet
> another implementation with its own logic.  Microsoft might do something
> else.
>
> I don't think this is the kind of area where you are going to get that
> sort of document.

*sigh*

This keeps reminding me of the Bad Old Days of hosts.txt before we had
DNS...  Manually distributing mapping files just isn't the way to go...

  - a