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Re: Kerberos IV and multihomed hosts.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Assar Westerlund)
Fri Oct 10 15:10:39 1997

To: Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@AppliedTheory.com>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 10 Oct 1997 21:10:50 +0200
In-Reply-To: Christopher Blizzard's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:49:12 -0400"

Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@AppliedTheory.com> writes:
> I'm having problems getting Kerberos IV to work with multi-homed hosts
> properly.  Outgoing connections can come from any of the interfaces
> depending on where the destination is and all of the interfaces are named
> differently.  This results in getting "Incorrect Network Address" 
> failures.

Most krb4 distributions don't work with multihomed hosts.  In the KTH
distribution, we have added some hacks so that it actually works.  If
you're interested in how it works have a look at
<http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/> or ask me off-line.

> I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the FAQ's that I've walked through
> although I seem to remember it mentioned in the past on this list.  Any
> thoughts on a work around for this from anyone?

There's an item on this in Ken's FAQ.

/assar

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