[2332] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: citizenship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Mar 31 14:09:28 1997
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:07:52 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: peter bolton <pbolton@cylink.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
Cc: jis@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: peter bolton's message of Fri, 28 Mar 97 13:35:09 PST,
<3.0.16.19970328133653.34578e80@192.43.161.2>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 97 13:35:09 PST
From: peter bolton <pbolton@cylink.com>
I tried to complete the form to get Kerberos from your site. After
getting the email back with my password, I resubmitted and got the
following message.
An Error Happened
You came from the incorrect source. You cannot get around our form. Sorry.
I'm accessing your server from my desktop at work. Do you know what the
problem might be?
There appears to be a bug in the PGP distribution server (which is how
we're allowing people to fetch Kerberos), which is apparently showing up
and catching people. It seems to be related to the host or network they
are coming from, so if you have access via some other ISP, you might
give that a try.
That message is normally supposed to come up only if the Web form's POST
command has an incorrect URL, which usually indicates that a user is
trying to hack us. However, after examining the logs that we keep, that
appears not to be what's happening, so at this point we think it's a web
server bug. Unfortunately, it appears to be an intermittant and
relatively rare set of conditions which trigger the bug, so it's hard
for us to reproduce.
Alternatively, you can fetch it from our FTP site, but ftp'ing to
athena-dist.mit.edu, cd'ing to /pub/kerberos, fetching the file
README.KRB5_R1.0, and then following the directions in taht file.
Good luck! We apologize for this inconvenience. Hopefully the web
server bug will be fixed soon.
- Ted
