1.1.6 name resolution

[Andrew Long]

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> eeradius.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Skinner
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:37 PM
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> Subject: Re: 1.1.6 name resolution
> 
> Andrew Long wrote:
> > Is it permissable to use a hostname in clients.conf, as for a host 
> > using dyndns?
> 
> You can put hostnames in the clients.conf file, however I'm 
> pretty sure that FreeRADIUS resolves those names at startup 
> and uses that initial lookup until it is forced to reread the 
> clients.conf file for some reason.  Since I think 1.1.6 still 
> has issues with HUP, that means a restart.
> 
> In short, you can, but it will not see any changes in dynamic 
> IP's unless you restart radiusd.
> 
> --
> Dennis Skinner

Would be nice to have freeradius update the name resolution
at a period specified in radiusd.conf...

oops. I am not a programmer, so forget I said that :)


Regards,

Andrew Long