[Freeipa-users] Would fixing hosts file break kerberos

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2016-11-17 at 15:53 -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> Afternoon.
> 
> I just noticed that I used inappropriate way of setting up my hosts
> files and I am planning to make a fix.  I am however worried this may
> break Kerberos.  Should this change be of concern and have anyone made
> the changes before?
> 
> My current /etc/hosts are as follows:
> 192.168.20.2     ipa  ipa.example.com
> 
> I am planning to change them so that the above line looks like this:
> 192.168.20.2    ipa.example.com  ipa

The former may actually break things, the second should "fix" them ...
unless you depended on the incorrect configuration in some way ...

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York