Kerberos Failover not working while using includedir /etc/krb5.conf.d/

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • During an outage of the primary Kerberos server, users can't authenticate.
  • We dont see attempt goining to other servers mentioned under /etc/krb5.conf.d/
  • kinit: Cannot find KDC for realm "example.com" while getting initial credentials
# ls -l /etc/krb5.conf.d/example.com
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 243 May 16 02:32 example.com <---------------
# cat /etc/krb5.conf.d/example.com
[realms]
example.com = {
  kdc = ad1.example.com
  kdc = idmserver2.example.com:88
  master_kdc = idmserver2.example.com:88
  admin_server = idmserver2.example.com:749
}

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • krb5-libs

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