NAS list update without restarting radius server.

liran tal liransgarage at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 14:40:12 CET 2008


Exactly my point Alan :)


Regards,
Liran Tal.



On Jan 23, 2008 2:04 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> Pawel Cieplinski wrote:
> > I wont be adding NASes, but users will do, so i am thinking 0-10 a day.
> >
> > Linking to a dynamic list using interal its not a good solution, becouse
> i
> > will need to wait for list update after adding NAS.
>
>  If the list update takes longer than 1/10 of a second, something is
> very wrong.
>
> > Other solution i am thinking is to run two instances of server and
> restart
> > them in round robin and use iptables to redirect packets to actual
> working
> > server.
>
>  Yuck.  That's a lot more complicated.
>
> > Goal is to serveradius to third party as a service, so users will add
> their
> > own nases, modified them etc, at this stage i cannot really say how many
> > times a day i will need a restart, but i am wondering about also about
> > following soltion:
>
>  For all that work, why not just fix the server so that it can be
> safely HUP'd?
>
>  Honestly, I'm wondering why people will put huge efforts into building
> and maintaining multiple machines rather than doing tiny bits of coding.
>  If the functionality is *that* important, it should be important enough
> to add to the server core.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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