Excerpts from internet.info-afs: 6-Jan-96 Re: Performance of CNS vs. ..
by Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Actually, the MIT kerberos server does _not_ support the administrative
> > functions; those are handled by a separate server that runs on a
> > different port.
>
> I know it's done by a separate process. But I think of that as an
> implementation detail. I've wondered how they deal with locking
> & performance issues, but haven't been quite curious enough to dig in.
Bear in mind that *only* kadmind (on the master) and kprop(d? i forget
which runs where) on the slave will ever need to lock the database. The
kerberos server serves the database in a read-only fashion.
-D
