Interesting problem with Kerberos IPv6 support

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 28 11:53:37 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    >>> Sigh, there's no good solution, unfortunately.  Forcing a
    >>> client upgrade just because you add an IPv6 interface to a
    >>> machine sucks.
    >>  Is this suggesting there needs to be a global "NO-IPv6" or
    >> "IPv4-only" compile setting for Kerberos, if there isn't
    >> already ?

    Ken> Actually, given my druthers, I'd rather there be a runtime
    Ken> knob, if we're talking about knobs.

And I think we'd rather not have the option at all.  But I'm not sure
we can get away with that.



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