FreeRadius keeps marking a home server dead

[Htin Hlaing]

Hi,   I am using FreeRadius 1.0 pre release 3 as a daemon and I have noticed the following problem.   I have proxying on and set up NULL realm with one home server to it.  If a RADIUS message comes and the proxying to the home server works the first time, then it works fine.  If the home server does not respond to the proxy message, then FreeRadius would send reject and mark the home server dead for the configured dead time which is all good. If the new RADIUS messges comes during this deadtime, then the proxying will not happen as the only homer server is dead.  After the deadtime is over, the expected behavior would be that the FreeRadius would try to proxy again to the home server.  What I am seeing is that after the dead time is over, no proxy msgs come out of the FreeRadius process (Ethereal confirms this) at all but the home server gets marked as a dead server again. Although no msg comes out of the process, it seems like the default 3 retries is happening inside as there is some delay between receiving of RADIUS msg from the NAS and the printing out the msg of marking the home server dead.  So, I think something is stuck in sending the proxy msg out.  If I restart the process at that point, everything works fine.   Htin