On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Emmanuel Fusté wrote: ! localhost is defined as a (local) hostname of the loopback interface, not a ! domain name.
Where would that be defined? Because, what You state is a contradiction in itself: a hostname is a designation of the metal (or virtual, nowadays), it has nothing to do with interfaces (An interface cannot possess the host, just like a door cannot possess the room), Considering the hostname eqivalent to an address label on an interface (no matter if that might be stored in DNS or elsewhere) is a common misunderstanding by people who do not know that more than one interface card can be installed in a machine, neither that ip aliases do exist. The result of this misunderstanding is what makes Kerberos configuration a venture into hell - because the designers insisted that a hostname and an address label are the same and therefore that there can be only one address for a host. The only sensible way to cope with such designs is then to give them localhost as their desired domain name (that one is always valid): root@edge:~ # ktutil list Vno Type Principal Aliases 1 aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 host/localhost@INTRA.PHASE23 This works as long as one doesn't allow Kerberos from [ab]using DNS for storage. It might even work with DNS when implementing subdomains under "localhost" in an appropriate way. Have fun, PMc -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
