Fall back to TCP on kdc-unresolvable/unreachable errors. We still have
to wait for UDP to fail, so this might not be ideal. RT #5868.
--- krb5/src/lib/krb5/os/changepw.c
+++ krb5/src/lib/krb5/os/changepw.c
@@ -270,10 +270,22 @@ change_set_password(krb5_context context
&callback_info, &chpw_rep, ss2sa(&remote_addr),
&addrlen, NULL, NULL, NULL);
if (code) {
- /*
- * Here we may want to switch to TCP on some errors.
- * right?
- */
+ /* if we're not using a stream socket, and it's an error which
+ * might reasonably be specific to a datagram "connection", try
+ * again with a stream socket */
+ if (!use_tcp) {
+ switch (code) {
+ case KRB5_KDC_UNREACH:
+ case KRB5_REALM_CANT_RESOLVE:
+ case KRB5KRB_ERR_RESPONSE_TOO_BIG:
+ /* should we do this for more result codes than these? */
+ k5_free_serverlist (&sl);
+ use_tcp = 1;
+ continue;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ }
break;
}