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Clarification of philosophy ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Marshall)
Mon May 6 17:16:52 1996

Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:49:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Marshall <cmarsh01@west.poly.edu>
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU


I am installing krb5 in a university setting in a development lab. The 
lab consists of six machines, and all have the same domain as everyone else
(.poly.edu).

What I don't want to happen is for <kdlserver1>.poly.edu to be the 
kerberos realm server for the all machines in the entire .poly.edu 
domain. Just for these six machines. In the krb5.conf file under 
[domain_realm] I listed each of the six hosts and specifically set each 
equal to the realm I created for this lab.

What happens if I don't indicate a domain to realm translation, and leave 
it just with host to realm translations? Or if I do indicate .poly.edu = 
MYKRB.REALM, will this server get hit with a bunch of requests that it 
can't answer for? Will it just turn people away, or is there some kind of 
resource drain?

I have already made a suggestion that these six machines be subdomained 
(.kdl.poly.edu), but until that happens, what is the impact? 

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Chris

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