no start of radiusd after reboot : mysql connection error

[Alan DeKok]

mailinglists wrote:
> After reboot, freeradius does'nt start, and says this is because it
> could'nt reach the mysql database. But it doesn't even tries to contact
> it (networkingly-speaking : tcpdump sees nothing).
> Just after reboot, if root runs "/etc/init.d/radiusd start", freeradius
> starts OK, and contacts correctly the database.
> If I add a "ping database.domain.com" in the /etc/init.d/radiusd just
> before starting radiusd, it works, even at boot time !! (but it's really
> a dirty and ugly a solution, so I cant' resolv myself to such an issue !!!)

  It looks to me like it's a networking issue on that machine.  The
"ping" shouldn't effect anything... but it does.

  FreeRADIUS is at the mercy of the networking stack && the MySQL
libraries.  I don't think there's anything that can be done in
FreeRADIUS to fix that.

  Alan DeKok.