proxy failover

[Michael Markstaller]

Just did some tests to verify failover and I came across two issues:
- running FreeRADIUS 1.0.1
- one realm (used with DEFAULT Huntgroup,Proxy-To-Relam in users), entered with two home-servers

With config
proxy server {
	synchronous = no
	retry_delay = 10
	retry_count = 3
	dead_time = 600
	default_fallback = no
	post_proxy_authorize = no
}
The first failed server *never* gets marked as "dead" 

using
	retry_delay = 5
	retry_count = 3
one authentication try fails, then the server is marked as dead and subsequent suceed within dead_time 

The problem is, I need the larger timeout/retry-delay for lame upstream servers and I know the failover also worked with these settings some time ago, but this might have been with an earlier 0.9x release.
Is there a way now (I remember some dicussions years ago it wasn't) to make the failover to multiple proxies work without losing one authentication-try each dead_time ?
I checked the changelog but found no hints something was fixed or changed in later versions.. Might it be worth a try to use v1.1.1 ? (although I'd really love to keep my stable Debian-package)

Michael