On 2 April 2014 21:46, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Wang Shouhua wrote: > >> Is there such an utility which can issue a "ping" (null command) to >> the kdc to see if it is still responding? > > > I'm not aware of a dedicated utility. However, the KDC is basically a > stateless UDP service, so recording a live transaction and replaying an > input packet is expected to yield some sort of response packet. Doing this > periodically allows for a very primitive "liveness check" which can be used > in some monitoring setups. Of course, if one wants to monitor that the KDC > is actually functioning properly and not just spewing error packets, more > effort is required.
Does the Kerberos5 core protocol have a 'null' operation? Wang -- Wang Shouhua - shouh...@gmail.com 中华人民共和国科学技术部 - HTTP://WWW.MOST.GOV.CN
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