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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:16:14 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Remote auth server
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On Mon Mar 24 10:12:19 EDT 2014, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> authdom isnt a hostname. its just a string. you can supply auth
> server ip address in plan9.ini with auth= or send it to the
> terminal using plan9 dhcp server (its a plan9 specific dhcp
> option field). it does not need to be an ip in ndb,
> ip/dhcpd will resolve it to an ip address for the client.

though, as i think you pointed out recently, a probablly useful
confusion has been brought in:

; g p9auth /sys/src/lib*
/sys/src/libauthsrv/authdial.c:24: 	 * if that didn't work, try p9auth.$dom.  this is very helpful if
/sys/src/libauthsrv/authdial.c:28: 		p = smprint("p9auth.%s", dom);

- erik