FR 2.1.7: Error: Failed binding to proxy address

[Alan DeKok]

John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running Freeradius 2.1.7 (on CentOS 5 - freeradius2-2.1.7-7.el5),
> and are seeing many of these messages in our log files:
> 
>   Fri Jun 11 11:44:19 2010 : Error: Failed binding to proxy address *
>   port 1815: Address already in use
> 
> The server is already running and so would already be bound to the port,
> so why is it trying to bind to it again? These seem to occur initially
> in ones or twos, but eventually the server stops responding completely
> to requests. At that point we have to restart the radiusd process.
> 
> Is this known about and maybe fixed in 2.1.9? Or is something else going
> on here?

  Changelog from 2.1.8:

	* Proxying large numbers of packets no longer gives error
	  "unable to open proxy socket".

  Alan DeKok.