[453] in Kerberos
Re: RPC for communicating with Kerberos
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Wed Jul 20 19:30:07 1988
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@BITSY.MIT.EDU>
To: Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kazar+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jerome H. Saltzer's message of Wed, 20 Jul 88 15:26:14 EDT <8807201926.AA00933@HERACLES.MIT.EDU>
Actually I believe that Mike was referring to the "admin
server" protocol. This protocol is UDP based and not idempotent. At
MIT we therefore do not retransmit but instead take advantage of the
fact that the network rarely loses packets (most of the time).
Needless to say this is a crock. A good RPC mechanism is certainly
called for and there is discussion in that direction among the
Kerberos developers.
-Jeff
