Loopback Interface
Dr. Greg Wettstein
greg at wind.enjellic.com
Wed Jan 7 10:25:50 EST 2004
On Jan 7, 12:17am, Sam Hartman wrote:
} Subject: Re: Loopback Interface
> >>>>> "ms419" == ms419 <ms419 at freezone.co.uk> writes:
>
> ms419> I'm running a slave kerberos KDC on my OS X laptop. I need
> ms419> to access the KDC when the laptop is disconnected from any
> ms419> network, but the KDC doesn't bind to the loopback
> ms419> interface, and I can't seem to setup a dummy interface in
> ms419> OS X. OS X shuts down any interface on which it can't
> ms419> detect a link. How can I force the KDC to bind to the
> ms419> loopback interface?
> You cannot do so with the KDC shipped with OSX.
>
> There has been enough discussion of this feature of the code that we
> may want to revisit allowing the kdc to bind to the loopback address.
A command-line switch (default not to bind) to turn on binding to
loopback might be the most appropriate solution.
Best wishes for a productive week to everyone.
Greg
}-- End of excerpt from Sam Hartman
As always,
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