For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

JoeTheFifth's avatar
JoeTheFifth
Icon for Altostratus rankAltostratus
Jan 28, 2018

BigIP Kerberos constrained delegation and Web farm servers

SO I have been testing apm and kerberos constrained delegation. It is working in my current setup.

 

Current setup is:

 

BigIP LTM/APM version 12.1.3

 

Windows 7 client machine

 

An active directory domain

 

A web application with 2 servers.

 

Web site is running under an AD service account.

 

I didn't create the delegation to the web servers. Instead I created the delegation to the web app service account. bigip service account => web app pool account.

 

Now if I don't put my web site hostname webapp.domain.com = web server ip the setup does not work. If I add webapp.domain.com to the bigip hosts file the setup works. I have 2 servers. So I need to add entries for both servers. Question: is there any better way of doing it without having to put entries in the hosts file. I know dns can be used but the bns entry webapp.domain.com points to the virtual server in this case so that users can reach the site. And I can use only one dns. Why does not the bigip just pick a node in the pool and use it for the delegation. The error in the apm log: Jan 19 11:45:06 F5 err websso.1[17633]: 014d0019:3: /Common/CustomPolicy:Common:e8a77ee0: Kerberos: Failed to resolve IP address: ::ffff:10.0.10.3 If I put the entry webapp.mydomain.com = 10.0.10.3 the delegation succeeds.