Folks, I'm trying to track down a kerberos weirdness and would appreciate some help. I'm using a krb5.conf from my production RHEL5 machines in f11 which is set to lookup the KDC's using DNS for the EOS.NCSU.EDU realm. A kinit -5 <username> returns the following: kinit(v5): Cannot resolve network address for KDS in realm EOS.NCSU.EDU while getting initial credentials If I turn on the nscd daemon the above kinit command works as expected and I have tickets. Turn nscd off, and the above error returns. I've strace'd kinit and I see it pulling down the KDC DNS names but I can't figure out what is happening to produce the error. Thoughts? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely <jjneely(a)ncsu.edu&gt; Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89