FR 2.1.7: Error: Failed binding to proxy address

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:34 +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
> 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".
> 
Okay, thanks. Although we are using supplied CentOS packages, I'll see
about rebuilding freeradius with 2.1.8 or later.



John.

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