FR behavior when DB not available

[Anatoliy]

Hi Alan , Brendan , thank you for comments, I need time to think out this

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 10:05 PM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2023, at 8:37 AM, Anatoliy <cphlpd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Alan , DB that never goes down - is fantastic. At least while customer
> > is understand that investment in DB (which will never goes down) will
> never
> > payback.
>
>   You know very well that I didn't mean some magic system where nothing
> ever goes wrong.
>
>   My point (as I've said repeatedly) is that if your DB is down for
> extended periods, that's a problem.  Which means that you should fix the
> DB.  Add monitoring, replicas, etc.
>
>   Trying to "fix" FreeRADIUS is wasting your time.  That work will not pay
> back as much as fixing the DB.
>
>   It makes no sense to go "Hm... the database is down.  I know, I won't
> fix that.  Instead, I'll go poke FreeRADIUS!"  It is entirely the wrong
> approach.
>
>   Perhaps you could listen to the people who've been doing this for
> decades.  They might know what they're talking about.  It doesn't make
> sense to ask for advice, and then go "Nah, I'm not going to do what the
> experts suggest.  I'm going to do something that they say won't help!"
>
>   See also Brendan's comments.  He has some good advice, too.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
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