hi The webserver has DNS aliases but not multiple IPs. On a client level is it possible to disable the reverse lookup? I am not sure if its backed up a pool of servers -- is there a way to find out from a client?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 07:10:42AM -0400, Rita wrote: > > I created a user keytab. I use curl to authenticate against a web server. > > `curl -u : --negotitate` it works randomly (about 33% accuracy). I am > > trying to figure out if its a webserver issue or kerberos issue. Is there > > anything else I can do? > > There's (at least) a couple things that can come into play for this sort of > scenario (not least because HTTP Negotiate violates some fundamental > assumptions about message- vs. connection-oriented): > > Does the web server's hostname have multiple IP addresses in the DNS? (Is > reverse DNS used for principal canonicalization by the krb5 library? The > default is "yes" in many versions.) > > Does the web server have a pool of backend servers behind a load balancer? > > -Ben > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
