> On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a time PM Mailing List shaped the electrons to say...
> > >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
> >
> > RADIUS uses DNS.
>
> Actually, radius uses the system's resolver, which can be the /etc/hosts
> file, NIS or DNS. The resolver is only necessary when the clients file
> entry is not an IP address.
>
> For reliablity reasons I've always put the IP address in the clients
> file. I highly recommend using the IP address since then it doesn't
> matter what name resolver is defined or available.
Also, I think from a security standpoint it would leave you less
suceptible to spoofing attacks.
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