Users Cannot login when Inet Connection goes down (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 18:52:26 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Shawn Meyers shaped the electrons to say...
>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 RADIUS uses DNS to check on the authentification requests. It checks
name to IP and IP to name. So if your DNS goes away, RADIUS will stop
authenticating. I'm rather surprised you would rely solely on external
DNS - you have no DNS server on site?

-MZ

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