Problems creating a Kerberos test (sw_gethostbyname?)

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Feb 15 01:07:30 GMT 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:01 -0500, derrell at samba.org wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm looking for pointers and suggestions on how we can do this,
> > hopefully without effectively re-inventing a DNS server, and still
> > covering all the cases.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Andrew, is it possible that some trick with nsswitch.conf can help?  I'm not
> familiar with the issues you're trying to get around, but nsswitch.conf
> specifies where to look for host-name lookups, and you can write your own
> service library.  (This applies to Linux and Solaris and ???)

Yep, but we get to do this across all hosts, and without root access
(and no desire to hose the host/developer workstation just for our
tests :-).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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