On 14 Feb 2013, at 23:10, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote:

>  My thinking was that servers with the cell-wide key would just
> use afs-rxgk@_afs.cell, and servers that don't have the cell-wide key
> would use afs3-bos@host. The client would try with afs3-bos@host, but if
> that doesn't exist (or the connection negotiation fails), we would retry
> assuming that we can use afs-rxgk@_afs.cell. That's a problem?

There's two issues here. Firstly, only machines hosting vlservers have access 
to the key material necessary to accept GSSNegotiate calls for 
afs-rxgk@_afs.cell. Machines with the rxgk cell-wide key can accept rxgk 
challenges using cell-wide tokens, but the failure mode here is such that I 
don't think you'd want to base a key negotiation on it.

Secondly, in situations where bos is managing servers for multiple cells, how 
do you decide which afs-rxgk@_afs.cell to use?

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