From 3b7f8ddd9a7c0d372a0585790913ac95c9eb3324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:55:39 +0000 Subject: r10398: Don't do DNS lookups on short names (no .). Andrew Bartlett (This used to be commit 77aca9619d24a8e118f53bcd1a1e54b8437812a8) --- source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'source4/auth/kerberos') diff --git a/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt b/source4/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt index cfbf904bb3..3b2989eee1 100644 --- 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. + -- cgit