RE: KDC connections

[dtennant@panasas.com]

Thanks Nico,

    You were on the right track.  My process wasn't running out of file descriptors, but the send_and_recv_udp function uses select, and has FD_SETSIZE set to 1024.  So if you're using more than that many file descriptors, you're in trouble.
    We have come up with a version of this that uses poll instead of select for our purposes, but I'm wondering if this is something other people would want.  It could be something that is decided at configure time.

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas Williams [mailto:Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:14 PM
To: dtennant@panasas.com
Cc: joda@pdc.kth.se; heimdal-discuss@sics.se
Subject: Re: KDC connections


Chances are that your process is running out of file descriptors.

Try strace'ing your process(es).

Cheers,

Nico

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:47:20PM -0400, dtennant@panasas.com wrote:
> I am running into an issue where after a stream of many KDC ticket requests, I get a "Cannot contact any KDC for requested realm" error.  However, the KDC is still running, and appears to be able to service requests, even from that same host.  Is there some way I could be trying to make too many simultaneous connections to the KDC, or two many identitcal requests in a row, and the KDC is refusing to talk to me intentionally?  I've tried this test on the same machine as the KDC, so it's not a transient network outage or anything.  I just wanted to make sure there's not a security feature I'm not aware of that's tripping me up here.
> 
> I'm using the krb5_get_init_creds_keytab() function for my ticket requests.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Dan

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