krb1.5 plugin interface query

[Henry B. Hotz]

On Sep 9, 2006, at 9:04 AM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:37:33 -0400
> From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: Re: krb1.5 plugin interface query
> To: "Vipin Rathor" <v.rathor at gmail.com>
> Cc: krbdev at mit.edu, kerberos at mit.edu
> Message-ID: <1C8AD2BD-2FC9-4E36-ACBC-59DE72733BF4 at mit.edu>
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> On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:58, Vipin Rathor wrote:
>>     As MIT_krb1.5 supports two plugin interfaces, one internal
>> interface for
>> new database layer and other public interface for KDC.
>> here, can anyone tell me,
>> 1.How i can use these interfaces to get most out of them?
>> 2.is there any reference doc. available for using these interfaces?
>
> No reference docs currently.
>
> kdc location: Are you doing anything interesting where krb5.conf
> entries or DNS SRV records won't cut it for locating your KDCs?

For reliability/network diversity perhaps you have slave kdc's in  
locations where you don't control the DNS.  Want to tell the client  
to use the closest kdc(s) first, but still try at least one from each  
location.
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