Problems creating a Kerberos test (sw_gethostbyname?)

[Michael Sweet]

tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Michael,
> 
>  > If you will be chroot'ing the test anyways, why not just create a
>  > hosts file that gethostbyname() can read in the chroot'd environment?
> 
> a couple of reasons :-)
> 
>  1) krb5 makes resolver calls that can't be answered via /etc/hosts,
>     such as SRV record lookups

OK, then you'll be using more than gethostbyname() then...  That
was the crux of my question, trying to avoid a complex solution if
there was an easy one available... :)

>  2) moving to relying on chroot in the build farm would be a disaster,
>     and would lose much of the advantages of the build farm
> 
> I also don't like the public server idea. I think the socketwrappper
> approach or magic env variables are both better approaches.
> 
> Cheers, Tridge


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