For Kerberos testing, disable reverse DNS lookup

In our Kerberos test suite, there isn't much need to worry about the
normal canonicalization that Kerberos provides by looking up the reverse
DNS for the IP address connected to, and in some cases it can actively
cause problems (eg: a captive portal wifi where the normally not
resolvable localhost address used ends up being resolved anyway, and
not to the domain we are using for testing, causing the entire
regression test to fail with errors about not being able to get a TGT
for the remote realm for cross-realm trust).

Therefore, disable it by adding rdns = false into the krb5.conf that's
generated for the test.

Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y/[email protected]

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/kerberos/t/001_auth.pl b/src/test/kerberos/t/001_auth.pl
index d610ce63ab..3bc4ad7dd3 100644
--- a/src/test/kerberos/t/001_auth.pl
+++ b/src/test/kerberos/t/001_auth.pl
@@ -100,6 +100,17 @@ $stdout =~ m/Kerberos 5 release ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)/
   or BAIL_OUT("could not get Kerberos version");
 $krb5_version = $1;
 
+# Build the krb5.conf to use.
+#
+# Explicitly specify the default (test) realm and the KDC for
+# that realm to avoid the Kerberos library trying to look up
+# that information in DNS, and also because we're using a
+# non-standard KDC port.
+#
+# Reverse DNS is explicitly disabled to avoid any issue with a
+# captive portal or other cases where the reverse DNS succeeds
+# and the Kerberos library uses that as the canonical name of
+# the host and then tries to acquire a cross-realm ticket.
 append_to_file(
 	$krb5_conf,
 	qq![logging]
@@ -108,6 +119,7 @@ kdc = FILE:$kdc_log
 
 [libdefaults]
 default_realm = $realm
+rdns = false
 
 [realms]
 $realm = {