Re: (ASCEND) ascend radius who supports it??

[Michael Butler <imb@geko.net.au>]

Dave Joyce wrote:
> Do you have the same problem I have. A Mennonite farmer recently augered his
> way right through the fiber out of town and took down our connection to our
> upstream provider. As soon as we went down no one could log on. Radius
> refused to authenticate anyone even though the radius box is local. I was
> able to log in using a connection profile setting.
 
> Is there some switch that would allow the local users to log on when the
> internet connection goes down?

This is usually a result of the radius server not being able to do DNS
look-ups (e.g. to check that the NAS is actually authorised to ask). Run a
local (perhaps caching-only) name-server or, less preferably, "hard-wire" the
relevant host names into /etc/hosts on the radius box and place "hosts" before
"bind" in /etc/host.conf (or whatever is the equivalent on the o/s you're
running),

	Michael
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