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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">A very high Shibboleth authentication traffic SP has been noticing messages such as below on all 8 of the load balance server nodes (each with an SP):</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; ">2013-10-29 21:14:34 WARN Shibboleth.AttributeResolver.Query [273358]: can't attempt attribute query, either no NameID or no metadata to use</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; ">The above message occurs periodically.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; ">The integration is direct SP-to-IdP SAML2 (no EDS or WAYF).</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; ">Any ideas on where to look? Filesystem/SAN seem fine (problems do not correlate to the SP message timeline).</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; ">I have checked the mail-list archives – so fare none of those seem to fit but will keep digging.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px; ">Thanks.</div>
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