v4 include v3 dictionary alias file - error

[James Wood]

Hi Alan,

I added the include line in rads/dictionary,  this is what I meant by main
dictionary file. If you are saying not to edit this then how else should we
be doing it?

I followed the instructions by I commenting out the aruba specific v3 alias
file.

Why does it throw an out of memory error when I have done what he guide
says? Is it a known issue?

Thanks,

James




On Sun, 29 Mar 2026, 18:15 Alan DeKok, <alan.dekok at inkbridge.io> wrote:

> On Mar 29, 2026, at 5:16 AM, James Wood via Freeradius-Users <
> freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> >
> > On the latest v4 dev version I am trying to include a v3 ALIAS dictionary
> > file (shipped with the source) for some testing.
> >
> > In the main dictionary file, I am using:
>
>   Please don't edit the main dictionary file.  It ships with the server,
> and will be over-written with any later installation.
>
>   If you need to add aliases, see raddb/dictionary.  It has comments and
> examples for how to load the alias files.
>
>   I'll fix the error to be more descriptive, but you cannot, and should
> not, edit the dictionary files that are included with the server.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>

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