[EXTERNAL] Rate limiting Kerberos Requests

Nico Williams nico at cryptonector.com
Tue Sep 25 17:41:44 EDT 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Glenn Machin <gmachin at sandia.gov> wrote:
> A performance issue we have seen has to do when a KDC has a heavy load
> and cannot provide a response within 1 sec.

That's almost certainly due to a locking bug that was recently fixed
in the master
branch:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b858e776ece87756202d4c646931d35bd407e3ea
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7359

Nico
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