+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #908323 +++ krb5 uses reverse DNS records for creating service principals from host names. This is non-standard behavior. Apparently most other clients do not do this, and the RFC 4120 does not specify this behavior. Being the only client that uses PTR records for this purposes causes problems, as unfortunately realms often have missing or incorrect information present in PTR records. We should change the builtin default behavior to match other clients. Upstream is considering such a change: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2011-July/017313.html Because this represents a change in defaults, we should make this happen in RHEL 7 (rather than a point release) and Fedora 19. The previous behavior would still be available by changing the krb5.conf. This is related to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LessBrittleKerberos
We're picking up the change in the default configuration, which based on traffic in bug #908323 looks sufficient.
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