On 27/09/2007, Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Why is this not a bug in kerberos? If the application knows that the
IP
address it wants for the name needs to be globally routable, then the
application should be responsible for walking the list of IPs for that
name to find the routable ones.
Another point being missed, is that if the hostname gets changed the
moment an external IP interface is brought up, X becomes unusable
because suddenly the magic cookie isn't found (the server and
.Xauthority think it's "localhost" and the client thinks it's
"some-dynamic-ip-xx-yy-zz.imaginative-dsl-provider.com").
So adding it to /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 (or, as I do, 127.0.0.x where
x > 1) helps a lot(!)