Marking proxy servers as zombie - odd behaviour

John Horne john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Thu Jun 17 15:10:26 CEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 14:16 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:26:37AM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > So what is being seen is that backend server 141.163.66.101 has sent an
> > accept accept packet (to the local proxy server 195.250) and the log
> > shows a user as having authenticated. About 10 seconds later, the server
> > is marked as zombie, but tcpdump shows that a packet (access reject - we
> > have status-server set up with an invalid userid, so the reject is
> > correct) is received from that server.
> 
> Can you paste the exact home_server settings you used? That might shed
> some light...
> 
For this particular server:

   home_server IAS {
          type = auth
          ipaddr = ias.plymouth.ac.uk
          port = 1812
          secret = xxxxxx
  #       status_check = status-server
          status_check = request
          username = xxxxxx
          password = xxxxxx
  }




John.

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