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Rajini Sivaram commented on KAFKA-6195:
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Looks good to me, I will respond on the discuss thread.
> DNS alias support for secured connections
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> Key: KAFKA-6195
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6195
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: clients
> Reporter: Jonathan Skrzypek
> Priority: Major
>
> It seems clients can't use a dns alias in front of a secured Kafka cluster.
> So applications can only specify a list of hosts or IPs in bootstrap.servers
> instead of an alias encompassing all cluster nodes.
> Using an alias in bootstrap.servers results in the following error :
> javax.security.sasl.SaslException: An error:
> (java.security.PrivilegedActionException: javax.security.sasl.SaslException:
> GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided
> (Mechanism level: Fail to create credential. (63) - No service creds)])
> occurred when evaluating SASL token received from the Kafka Broker. Kafka
> Client will go to AUTH_FAILED state. [Caused by
> javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by
> GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Fail to create
> credential. (63) - No service creds)]]
> When using SASL/Kerberos authentication, the kafka server principal is of the
> form kafka@kafka/broker1.hostname....@example.com
> Kerberos requires that the hosts can be resolved by their FQDNs.
> During SASL handshake, the client will create a SASL token and then send it
> to kafka for auth.
> But to create a SASL token the client first needs to be able to validate that
> the broker's kerberos is a valid one.
> There are 3 potential options :
> 1. Creating a single kerberos principal not linked to a host but to an alias
> and reference it in the broker jaas file.
> But I think the kerberos infrastructure would refuse to validate it, so the
> SASL handshake would still fail
> 2. Modify the client bootstrap mechanism to detect whether bootstrap.servers
> contains a dns alias. If it does, resolve and expand the alias to retrieve
> all hostnames behind it and add them to the list of nodes.
> This could be done by modifying parseAndValidateAddresses() in ClientUtils
> 3. Add a cluster.alias parameter that would be handled by the logic above.
> Having another parameter to avoid confusion on how bootstrap.servers works
> behind the scene.
> Thoughts ?
> I would be happy to contribute the change for any of the options.
> I believe the ability to use a dns alias instead of static lists of brokers
> would bring good deployment flexibility.
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