Determening the number of clients per KDC

[Russ Allbery]

Mark Pröhl <mark at mproehl.net> writes:
> On 04/16/2018 05:51 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> ... Clients aren't going to generally all try to get a ticket at the
>> same time, due to ticket caching, so that scales to a lot of clients.

> I have only seen JAVA/JAAS clients caching the TGT and not the service
> tickets. Especially in Hadoop environments this leads to much more TGS
> traffic than in "classical" Kerberos environments. 1000 rps are not
> unusual.

Ah, interesting!  (Also incredibly broken behavior....)

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Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>