[32449] in Kerberos
Re: bug report: "too many SRV records" becomes "no SRV records"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard E. Silverman)
Wed Jun 9 18:12:14 2010
From: "Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net>
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>>>>> "res" == Richard E Silverman <res@qoxp.net> writes:
res> In 1.8.1, there is the following code in
res> src/lib/krb5/os/dnsglue.c:
res> krb5int_dns_init(struct krb5int_dns_state **dsp, char *host,
res> int nclass, int ntype) { ... nextincr = 2048; maxincr = INT_MAX;
res> ...
res> One day, due to an error, the number of KDC SRV records for one
res> of our realms doubled from 27 to 54... and KDC lookups via DNS
res> prompty broke. I bumped up the nextincr value above, and it
res> started working again. Probably not the right fix, but just
res> letting you know that there's a bug here.
res> -- Richard Silverman res@qoxp.net
By the way, it wasn't quite clear to me -- if this should go to krbdev,
please let me know. I've been posting here first to vet whether something
actually *is* a bug, if or before posting there. Thanks.
--
Richard Silverman
res@qoxp.net
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