Query - How to determine the KDC

2014-01-31 Thread Priya Balakrishnan
Hope this isn't a silly question. Is there a command/tool that tells us which is the KDC for a particular realm ? -- Cheers, Priya Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos

Re: Query - How to determine the KDC

2014-01-31 Thread Rick van Rein
Hi, Hope this isn't a silly question. Is there a command/tool that tells us which is the KDC for a particular realm ? You’d normally guess that the realm name is a DNS name, as is suggested in manuals, and then look it up (no lowercase casting necessary, as DNS is agnostic to case). You

Re: Query - How to determine the KDC

2014-01-31 Thread Rick van Rein
Hello, Hope this isn't a silly question. Is there a command/tool that tells us which is the KDC for a particular realm ? Silly me, I only gave half an answer. Once you have established that the realm of a DNS zone is the right one, you can rely on the KDC mentioned in SRV records with

Re: Query - How to determine the KDC

2014-01-31 Thread Greg Hudson
On 01/31/2014 10:08 AM, Priya Balakrishnan wrote: Hope this isn't a silly question. Is there a command/tool that tells us which is the KDC for a particular realm ? Not really in MIT krb5; at the moment, we keep all of the KDC location and communication code well under the hood. If the realm