KDC query client performance

[Henry B. Hotz]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:48 AM, krbdev-request at mit.edu wrote:

> It'd be nice if the client could do a lightweight ping of multiple TGSes
> in parallel...


. . . that didn't open the kdc up to a ping-pong attack.  I'm sure there's some value of "less well formed" which satisfies this, but I wonder if the issue isn't complex enough to need standards action, not merely an implementation choice.
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