[krbdev.mit.edu #6782] Master KDC lookup can use SRV lookups despite profile KDC configuration

Greg Hudson via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Apr 10 14:06:24 EDT 2012


Based on recent discussion here:

http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2012-April/010722.html

it would probably not be a good idea to assume that the first-listed KDC 
is the master, especially while there is no protection against contacting 
the same KDC a second time during the fallback to master.  We don't want 
to do fallback in situations where it isn't desired; otherwise we can 
cause extra account lockout strikes against a user who enters the wrong 
password.

A more appropriate change would be to check if there are "kdc" values in 
the profile realm configuration, and if so, not check DNS for a _master-
kdc record when looking for masters.


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