Re: How to disable DNS lookups?

On 24.07.2017 19:40, Roland C. Dowdeswell wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 08:23:52AM +0300, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
>>
> 
>> The Heimdal version identifies itself as 1.5.2. The main problem is that
>> Heimdal doesn't appear to use /etc/hosts for looking up the KDC's IP
>> address, but goes to DNS, and fails.
> 
> 1.5.2 is quite old and, IIRC, I've seen this before.  You can work
> around it by adding the kdc name with a dot at the end as an alias in
> the hosts file.

Thank you very much. That trick did it. It's weird, though. I would have 
likely never arrived at the same solution by myself.

FreeBSD appears unwilling to update the base system heimdal as it has 
been the same for several releases already. I have no idea why.