Re: Users Cannot login when Inet Connection goes down

Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:17:09 -0700

> I am using a Livingston portmaster with Radius NT. When my Internet
> connection goes down the users are unable to login. Why does this
> happen?
> I can't figure out why the radius will not authenticate users without an
> Internet connection, it should not need the DNS because the Livingston
> knows the IP Address of the Radius.

BUT if you look in your clients file you will see that you have the
DNS name of your Portmaster. Therfore, in order to authenticate the
packet, the portmaster needs the DNS. :)

The easiest way to solve this is to put an entry in your hosts file
for the portmaster. Then NT will always resolve the hostname and
IP address from the local hosts file and doesn't need a DNS server.

-- 
 Dale E. Reed Jr.  (daler@iea.com)
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