[18955] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: How often does MIT krb5 request for KDC info through DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Tue Aug 5 16:17:27 2014
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:17:18 -0400
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(Nico Williams's message of "Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:04:55 -0500")
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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, <Spike_White@dell.com> wrote:
>> Doesn't "name service caching" via nscd solve this?
>
> nscd is specifically about Unix name services, lookups in the
> hosts(4), passwd(4), ... DBs.
>
> We're talking about DNS SRV RR lookups though; nscd does nothing about those.
I thought the A and AAAA lookups for the addresses of 30+ KDCs were what
were at issue here, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
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