ping for kdc utility?

[Wang Shouhua]

On 2 April 2014 21:46, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Wang Shouhua wrote:
>
>> Is there such an utility which can issue a "ping" (null command) to
>> the kdc to see if it is still responding?
>
>
> I'm not aware of a dedicated utility.  However, the KDC is basically a
> stateless UDP service, so recording a live transaction and replaying an
> input packet is expected to yield some sort of response packet.  Doing this
> periodically allows for a very primitive "liveness check" which can be used
> in some monitoring setups.  Of course, if one wants to monitor that the KDC
> is actually functioning properly and not just spewing error packets, more
> effort is required.

Does the Kerberos5 core protocol have a 'null' operation?

Wang
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