Loopback Interface

[Dr. Greg Wettstein]

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

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