Unresponsive Child in component authorize

Marinko Tarlac mangia81 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 09:35:55 CEST 2008


@kesm0724

FreeRadius version is?



On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>wrote:

> kesm0724 wrote:
> > Does the "Unresponsive Child in module files component authorize" allude
> to
> > something I have misconfigured in the virtual server or a process that is
> > hung?
>
>   The server is blocked somewhere.
>
> > Tue Oct  7 12:14:43 2008 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id
> > 3054615440) for request 8, in module files component authorize
>
>   Hm... that's a little surprising.  The "files" module doesn't take
> much CPU time.  It doesn't use locks.  So there's no reason for it to
> block for long periods of time.
>
>  That may be a side-effect of something else taking long amounts of
> time.  Usually, this is SQL.
>
>  Or, if you're putting hostnames in the "users" file, instead of
> numerical IP addresses... and your DNS server is down.  The server won't
> be able to create the reply because it needs the IP address.  It won't
> be able to create the IP address because DNS is down.
>
>  Don't use hostnames.  Or, fix DNS so that it works.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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