Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:57:29 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hesiod support on 2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403175453.21311h-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199804032219.PAA17773@xmission.xmission.com>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > DNS wasn't really designed with a highly volatile dataset in mind. If > it takes a day or two for the existence of a new workstation to trickle > across the net, that's generally not too bad, but if it takes a day or > two for my new password to trickle across the net, I cannot reliably > predict if I can login or not. However, password support in Athena was designed to be distributed using Kerberos, not Hesiod. In a large system, a lag-time of a day for account creation across 5,000 workstations is not so bad. Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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