[neon] Win32 SSPI Negotiate authentication with virtual host/multi-homed

[Kaltenberger, Stefan]

Hi!

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:06:12 +0200, Yves Martin wrote:
> There is a great chance it comes from your DNS server entries (or
maybe
> a "hosts" file on your client...)

> Let's check with "nslookup" on windows or "host" on Linux:

You're right - trying a DNS lookup on a Linux host opened my eyes: while
the Windows nslookup tool correctly resolved the server IP to the FQDN
my Linux host told me 'Host {IP}.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)'.
I contacted my DNS administrator who found out that the IN PTR record of
our Subversion server simply didn't exist.

> FYI, this patch has been written to get SSPI authentication on win32
> behaves the same as libkrb5 on Linux - so that a virtual host setup is
> handled properly.

I looked trough the mail archives concerning this topic yesterday and I
agree that this feature is useful. Now my users even can use the short
hostname within the Subversion client (like they do using web-based
access via browser anyway) too.

Thank you very much for your instant help. Two years after introducing
Subversion in my company I'm finally able to use the official packages
without modifications.

Regards, Stefan