Kerberos Delegation - Anonymous Login Error (Intermittent)

  • I have a mostly successful implementation of Kerberos delegation between SQL Servers. However, on occasion I see the classic "Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'." error message when running procedures across linked servers. I would say that the delegation works without issue 99.99% of the time. I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot / correct this issue, especially because I can't reproduce it. Usually I can just re-run the query that generated the anonymous login error without issue.

    What are some efficient and accurate ways to track down what is happening that I would get the anonymous login error? Any help or insight is hugely appreciated.

    Thanks.

  • Are there any further details about the login failure in either the SQL error log or the system or application event logs?

    I have seen something "similar", but it did not actually have to do with a login failure so mush as heartbeat or tcp connection failure.

    If you have not checked in the system event logs and application logs as well as server logs, I would start there. The error you see may not have full description of the problem.

    A couple references (will not exactly answer your problem but might help if you are seeing a connection issue from any other logging):

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataaccess/thread/c895335c-9a88-488c-b39c-f54fd6cceba9/

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_protocols/archive/2005/09/28/474698.aspx

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