[X-Servers] KDC will not run - "Unable to bind to Parent"

[Michael Bartosh]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Tim David wrote:

> The KDC requires DNS to have both forward and reverse lookups setup 
> correctly, did you set up a reverse record?
> Here's the bad news, once that KDC fails to start, about the only way 
> to fix it is to reinstall OSX Server. Actually, I have not seen a way 
> to fix this yet without reinstalling the server operating system. I've 
> called several people at Apple and received the same answer.

Running kdesetup should work correctly. Generally tearing down the 
domain and re-building it will, too, but in that case you use data.

It's certainly not necessary to reinstall the OS, though.

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