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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 
> Peter Nixon
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 6:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dictionary and NAS tables
> 
> 
> 
> This sounds like a resonable solution to me. I already have a 
> table listing my 
> NASes anyway for reporting and query purposes, it would 
> certainly make things 
> neater if radius could use the same table. Especially for 
> cases where you 
> have more than radius server accessing a single DB backend.
> 
> Having radius query the DB everytime it gets an unknown 
> client query it could 
> result in a trivial DoS though :-(
> There would need to be some though go into this..
> 
> > This can eliminate the need to send SIGHUP to the server to 
> re-read the
> > clients.conf,
> > unless we change something in that file, and avoid possible 
> file corruption
> > due to
> > human error when we update the file with large number of NAS.
> 
> Yes, although because of DoS issues we maye still wish to 
> -HUP the server 
> anyway... I agree about management issues though.
> 

If Denial Of Service attack is a concern, then we can let the server
to read the DB for NAS table during initialization and do not refresh
its cache unless it receives a SIGHUP signal.  

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