Bug 82176 - kdc, realm resolution in dns not working
Summary: kdc, realm resolution in dns not working
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: krb5
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-18 22:49 UTC by John Morris
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-05-12 02:24:22 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2004:208 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated Kerberos 5 (krb5) packages available 2004-05-11 04:00:00 UTC

Description John Morris 2003-01-18 22:49:35 UTC
As shipped by RedHat, v. 1.2.5-6, the option to enable dns resolution of kdc and
realm are not compiled in, despite that the argument '--enable-dns' is supplied
to the configure script.

This is probably a Kerberos bug, but it may be worked around by omitting the
option '--with-netlib'; specifying '--with-netlib=...' causes the code in the
'configure' script that turns on the '-DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP_KDC=1
-DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP_REALM=1 -DKRB5_DNS_LOOKUP=1' compile flags (starting around
line 1400) to be circumvented.

The quick fix is simply to omit the line reading '--with-netlib=-lresolv \' in
the krb5.spec file; at configure time, the script will find the resolv library
by itself, and turn on DNS lookup support at the same time.

If further information is needed, please ask, and I will supply it.

Comment 1 Daniel Wittenberg 2003-11-29 07:24:47 UTC
This has been a problem with RH 8, yet it is a simple fix, and is
still present in RHEL 3?  What's the deal ?

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-05-12 02:24:22 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-208.html



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