Why must clients exist when radius starts?

[Dennis Skinner]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Douglas Phillipson <phillipd at oem.doe.gov> wrote:
>> Is there a configuration option that will allow me to put a client IP in 
>> the clients file without the client actually existing yet?  It seems 
>> when radius starts, if a client doesn't exist the daemon dies.
> 
>   Huh?  It does that only if you put a hostname in, and the hostname
> isn't resolvable to an IP address.
> 
>   The answer is to use IP addresses in the clients.conf file.  Since
> IP addresses always exist, the serbver will always start.

Or if you really feel you must have a domain name in there, add it to
your local /etc/hosts file until it is added to DNS.

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Dennis Skinner
Systems Administrator
BlueFrog Internet
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