On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, PM Mailing List wrote:
> 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.
Probably your radiusd is tied up trying to DNS lookups. A ps will
probably show dozens of radiusd processes running. The easiest thing is
to put IPs in the clients file instead of names. Then DNS won't be
necessary.
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Steven P. Crain scrain@shore.net http://www.shore.net/~scrain
Shore.Net Unix Development and Administration
An ISP with Excellence in the Greater Boston Area.
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