On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Sam Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm looking into DNS issues; the VM under vboxnat doesn't entirely
> exclude that.

Actually with both machines I'm using the same DNS server (run on the
debian machine).

> put something like
> kdc = <host.>:<port>
>
> in krb5.conf.
>
> Based on some other things, I suspect that's not the issue, but it is
> important to rule out.

Yes, tried and doesn't seem to change anything.

> I don't have a lot of ideas here about what is going on.  I can think
> of things that might be slow or blocking on the server side, but not
> on the client side.

I would guess that authentication is not threaded in browsers but why
can one library take so much longer than the other is very odd.

> Do you happen to know approximately how many http connections are required in 
> a given page load?
> I'd expect that the only place any Kerberos could slow things down is during 
> the initial sending of an HTTP request.

Looking at the firefox' status bar of the page there are probably near
300 objects (images?) have to be loaded.

btw. I tried using libgssglue configured to use mit kerberos and it is
also slow.

Regards



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