[krbdev.mit.edu #3334] libkrb5 treats all KDC errors as terminal
lukeh@padl.com via RT
rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Mar 17 00:38:10 EST 2006
>Looks like this error code was quietly added from RFC 1510 -> RFC
>4120 (somewhere between draft 03, 11/98, and draft 04, 6/99), without
>any definition besides the not-very-helpful text "A service is not
>available." There is no indication in the main text when this error
>code might be returned. If it said "the KDC service is not
>available", that might've been clearer, but "*a* service"?? What,
>should we return this error if the local SMTP handler has been shut
>down?
Ah, seems like it came from:
http://diswww.mit.edu:8008/menelaus.mit.edu/kprot/359
-- Luke
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