Massimiliano Tarquini wrote: > We have a full installation on freeradius 2.1.1 using postgreSql 8.1 running > onto 2 different machines. > The auth work fine 8we have tested it for two days with a killer script that > tests in continuously) but if the proxy
What proxy? You haven't explained how you have the network set up. > stops sending auth requests for a > few minutes (sometimes 15, sometimes 40), at the first request freeradius > start malefunctioning. > Following the log content > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------- > Sat Dec 13 16:19:38 2008 : Error: Discarding duplicate request from client ... > Sat Dec 13 16:20:01 2008 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child for request > 11657, in module sql component authorize That usually means that the database has blocked the server. The server is calling the DB client API to get data, and the API isn't returning. > Sat Dec 13 16:20:43 2008 : Info: rlm_sql (sql): There are no DB handles to > use! skipped 0, tried to connect 0 This happens when all of the DB connections are blocked. > Which is really strange is that the connections to the database are up and > the database works fine. The connections *exist*, but the server is telling you that they are not working. If the databse is working fine, then the problem is the DB client API. > After some retry the radius crash. See doc/bugs for instructions on what to do when this happens. > We tried to schedule a -HUP signal every 5 minutes, but it has non effect. The DB client API will likely re-try on interrupt signals. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

