Hi Alan,

Not sure if I understood it the wrong way, I have set a Post-Proxy-Type Fail handler in a virtual server, and then include the virtual_server in home_server_pool, but I still get a Access-Reject after both home servers are dead.   
I read the comments in proxy.conf again, it says "A virtual_server may be specified here.  If so, the "pre-proxy" and "post-proxy" sections are called when the request is proxied, and when a response is received."  Does it mean when there is no response from home server, it still cannot go into the Post-Proxy-Type Fail hander.. ?

server not_respond_post_proxy {
        pre-proxy {
        }
        post-proxy {
                Post-Proxy-Type Fail {
                      do_not_respond
                }
        }
}
home_server_pool My_Pool_01{
    type = fail-over
    virtual_server = not_respond_post_proxy

    home_server = my_server_01
    home_server = my_server_02
}


And then I created another virtual server with authorize using do_not_respond policy, and set it to fallback in home_server_pool.  And it seems to start working (no access reject returned).  Do you think it is the correct way to do it, do I need to include the Post-Proxy-Type Fail handler as well?

server virtual.notrespond {
  authorize {
    do_not_respond
  }
}
home_server virtual_not_respond {
  virtual_server = virtual.notrespond
}
home_server_pool My_Pool_01{
    type = fail-over
    home_server = my_server_01
    home_server = my_server_02
    fallback = virtual_not_respond
}



Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Leo


> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:38:41 +0000
> From: aland@deployingradius.com
> To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
> Subject: Re: About proxy mode, when all home servers are dead
>
> regulus regulus wrote:
> > I have a FreeRADIUS 2.2.3 run in proxy mode to 2 home RADIUS servers in
> > failover mode. The problem I face now is that when both home RADIUS
> > servers are dead, FreeRADIUS will send a reject to NAS
>
> Yes.
>
> > When NAS receive a reject, it won't failover to another redundant
> > RADIUS. Is there a way to configure FreeRADIUS such that it will not
> > send another response back to NAS when all home RADIUS are dead?
> > I have been studying the "do_not_respond" policy, but not sure how to
> > use it in this case..
>
> Set it in the Post-Proxy-Type Fail handler:
>
> Post-Proxy-Type Fail {
> do_not_respond
> }
>
> Alan DeKok.
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