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. Index: krb5-1.10.2/src/lib/krb5/os/changepw.c =================================================================== --- krb5-1.10.2.orig/src/lib/krb5/os/changepw.c +++ krb5-1.10.2/src/lib/krb5/os/changepw.c @@ -274,10 +274,22 @@ 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; }