[29319] in Kerberos
Re: Why krb5kdc and kadmind sets up ports for listening differently ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vipin Rathor)
Wed Feb 20 04:29:51 2008
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:58:48 +0530
From: "Vipin Rathor" <v.rathor@gmail.com>
To: "Ken Raeburn" <raeburn@mit.edu>
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On 2/19/08, Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu> wrote:
> The UDP service offered by the KDC needs to respond from the same IP
> address that the client used to reach it. That's not possible with a
> wildcard-address listener unless your system has support for
> IP_PKTINFO or IPV6_PKTINFO, which is now supported in our code as
> well. The TCP listener does use a wildcard address.
>
Does that mean, if wildcard is used over UDP for KDC, then on a
multi-IP machine, same IP will not be returned to the client?
Whereas TCP with wildcard, takes care of returning same IP, due to
it's reliability feature?
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-Rathor
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