On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:51:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> Whilst trying to reproduce bug #3902 I noticed that the code doesn't
> >> work with an abbreviated host name:
>
> > Testing w/ 8.3RC2, everything seems to be working fine here:
>
> Okay, that probably means there's something wacko about my Kerberos
> setup. It's quite likely got something to do with the fact that I
> set up the KDC on the same machine where I'm doing the PG testing,
> which is surely a case that would never be sane in practice.
>
> [ thinks for a bit... ] In this context there's some ambiguity as to
> whether 'rh2' should resolve as 127.0.0.1 or the machine's real IP
> address, and no doubt something is making the wrong choice someplace.
> That's probably how the localdomain lookups got into it.
Sounds likely. FWIW, DNS issues is by far the most common problem with
Kerberos installations - at least it is on Windows.
//Magnus
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