Re: Can't Login when Nameserver is Down?
Gary N. McKinney (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:39 -0400
> From: PM Mailing List <pm2e@ns.cococo.net>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Can't Login when Nameserver is Down?
> Date: Thursday, October 24, 1996 5:44 PM
>
> Hey all,
> Recently our nameserver machine has started acting flaky. Quits
> resolving some names like my 2nd Portmaster pm2, but still resolves the
> first pm1, but anyway when he starts acting this way none of the users
> can login, all users are on a seperate machine using radius. My question
> is why can the users not login when the nameserver goes down, I could
> understand this if the radius server was the same as the nameserver, but
> this is not the case. If I shut down the nameserver and start it back up
> everything is fine and back to normal. This message is a little vague,
> but I don't know what other info you would need. The logs in the
> nameserver don't reflect anything wrong with it either.
>
> Later
> Kelley
Kelly ... I think you will find that Radius utilizes the DNS (name) Server
to determine if the Portmaster is who it says it is... uses the DNS lookup
IP address returned as a comparison to the Authfile information. Check the
docs which came with the Radius software ( it's in there somewhere ).
Hope this helps...
Gary N. McKinney, Megabits.Net Systems Administrator & Janitor
(((Work)>(Trash))?(Administrator):(Janitor))
[ All views are expressly my own as my laptop will
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