Very strange...
Russell from Australiagate.
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Robert Hanson wrote:
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> do you control your pri and sec dns? this almost seems like a dns prob..
> or your pm setup prob... we shall see...
>
> do you have a default host in the pm? i.e.
>
> show global
>
> is that the solaris box?
>
> then look at a port in the pm that is giving you this problem
>
> set sXX extended on
> save SXX
> show sXX
>
> does the host say "default"?
>
> if so... then...
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> show table host
>
> if anything is there... id remove it if you control primary and secondary
> dns...
>
> then... consider...
>
> set sXX host solaris-box-ip-address
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> yet you need to do this for all ports if it fixes it...
>
> this has always fixed that problem for me...
>
> but i do pri and sec dns for me as well as pri and sec radius...
>
> sound right people :-?
>
>
> --->
> Robert H. Hanson Cutting Edge Communications, Inc. - blah,blah
> Otis Orchards, Wa. Regional Commercial Internet Service Provider
> (509) 927-9541 email: roberth@cet.com - http://www.cet.com/
>
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Gene James wrote:
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> >
> > > From: Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>
> > > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Subject: Radius unable to authenticate
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My users are starting to get "Host is currently unavailable" when they
> > > login. We use radius on Solaris and we have four PM2E, all users are
> > > authenticated through their UNIX passpord file. Is there any way to
> > > reduce the occurance of this error? We also have fair amount UNIX
> > > accounts. Would Network Service like NIS(+) help?
> >
> > We are getting this like crazy lately. I've determined that is it occuring
> > when USR modems call our newest SupraFAX 336 modems (ver 1.440-12 or
> > better). It is absolutely repeatable. We run radius on a Linus box.
> >
> > I have not determined WHY this is happening, all the modems I have to test
> > with do not exhibit this behavior!
> >
> > Gene James
> > Westmoreland Online, Inc.
> >
>