Re: question about slave servers

[Bill Swingle <unfurl@nextrials.com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:45:35PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:21, Bill Swingle wrote:
> > and working great but I'm unsure what the next step is. The krb5.conf
> > manpage doesn't specify what needs to be added to krb5.conf in order for
> > the clients to use the slave if something happens to the master. 
> 
> Multiple "kdc =" stanzas; clients will use each in turn.
> 
> Also useful are round-robin DNS entries, especially for sites large
> enough to have significant load on the KDC.  We have three A records for
> "kerberos.ece.cmu.edu", one for the primary and one for each slave;
> clients are configured to use kerberos.ece.cmu.edu first, then the
> master, then the slaves.

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

-Bill

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