How often does MIT krb5 request for KDC info through DNS?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Aug 5 12:03:40 EDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:53 -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> 
> As for JGSS performance, there are worse problems:
> 
>  - non-caching of some tickets
> 
>  - delegating credentials by default in the HTTP/Negotiate stack
>    (forwarded tickets are generally not cached on the client side)
> 
>  - doing an HTTP request w/o authentication every time, thus getting a
>    401 then trying again with Kerberos
> 
>  - servlets that don't use cookies to optimize away the GSS context
>    setup per-request(!!!)

 - On IIS, failing to set the 'AuthPersistNonNTLM' attribute which makes
   Kerberos authentication a per-connection thing instead of per-request

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benjaminperkins/archive/2011/10/31/kerberos-authpersistnonntlm-authentication-request-based-vs-session-based-authentication.aspx

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dwmw2
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