[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-6195) DNS alias support for secured connections

["Jonathan Skrzypek (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Skrzypek commented on KAFKA-6195:
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[~ijuma] could you take a look ? updated the email thread as well

> DNS alias support for secured connections
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-6195
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6195
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: clients
>            Reporter: Jonathan Skrzypek
>            Priority: Major
>
> It seems clients can't use a dns alias in front of a secured Kafka cluster.
> So applications can only specify a list of hosts or IPs in bootstrap.servers instead of an alias encompassing all cluster nodes.
> Using an alias in bootstrap.servers results in the following error : 
> javax.security.sasl.SaslException: An error: (java.security.PrivilegedActionException: javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Fail to create credential. (63) - No service creds)]) occurred when evaluating SASL token received from the Kafka Broker. Kafka Client will go to AUTH_FAILED state. [Caused by javax.security.sasl.SaslException: GSS initiate failed [Caused by GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Fail to create credential. (63) - No service creds)]]
> When using SASL/Kerberos authentication, the kafka server principal is of the form kafka@kafka/broker1.hostname.com@EXAMPLE.COM
> Kerberos requires that the hosts can be resolved by their FQDNs.
> During SASL handshake, the client will create a SASL token and then send it to kafka for auth.
> But to create a SASL token the client first needs to be able to validate that the broker's kerberos is a valid one.
> There are 3 potential options :
> 1. Creating a single kerberos principal not linked to a host but to an alias and reference it in the broker jaas file.
> But I think the kerberos infrastructure would refuse to validate it, so the SASL handshake would still fail
> 2. Modify the client bootstrap mechanism to detect whether bootstrap.servers contains a dns alias. If it does, resolve and expand the alias to retrieve all hostnames behind it and add them to the list of nodes.
> This could be done by modifying parseAndValidateAddresses() in ClientUtils
> 3. Add a cluster.alias parameter that would be handled by the logic above. Having another parameter to avoid confusion on how bootstrap.servers works behind the scene.
> Thoughts ?
> I would be happy to contribute the change for any of the options.
> I believe the ability to use a dns alias instead of static lists of brokers would bring good deployment flexibility.



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