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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2005-09-21 22:55:39 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:38:39 -0500
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r10398: Don't do DNS lookups on short names (no .).
Andrew Bartlett (This used to be commit 77aca9619d24a8e118f53bcd1a1e54b8437812a8)
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diff --git a/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt b/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt
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--- a/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt
+++ b/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt
@@ -365,4 +365,12 @@ by providing specific, english text-string error messages instead of
just error code translations.
+Short name rules
+----------------
+
+Samba is highly likely to be misconfigured, in many weird and
+interesting ways. As such, we have a patch for Heimdal that avoids
+DNS lookups on names without a . in them. This should avoid some
+delay and root server load.
+