On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> The main problem being that you're gonna hurt
> setting up and breaking down a SQL connection
> hundreds of times/second.
>
hundreds per second? if you get that many logins per second..i know i
dont. 1 connection/1 query for each pop3 login as i see it.
we're not talking about putting the actual mail in mysql, mind you.
at least i'm not.
> Have you ponder Radius and backing radius with SQL?
> Local connections are faster, something with cache is
> also a Good Thing.
>
I actually patched qpopper with native radius calls too (some time ago),
although i dont see the improvement for it over directly to mysql..
Why have a go between? (assuming your radius auth db is in mysql, which
mine is)
Both my radius server and mysql server are local.
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
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> Quoting Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Nhan NGO DINH (OCIC Missionary Service) wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm currently using Qpopper 4.0.3, and finally I've succeeded to set it up
> > > > using PAM modules (pam_mysql). Did you patch Qpopper to natively support mysql?
> >
> > yes, native, the pam module won't be sufficient for my needs. i'm sorry
> > that i dont have a patch for 4.0.x, to be honest, i installed 4.0.3 just
> > yesterday..i dont know when/if i'll have a patch for it.
> > if you're 'patch' savvy, you're welcome to try and evolve it to make it
> > work for 4.0
> >
> > -Tony
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> > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
> >
> > "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
> > http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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> > >
> > > >
> > > > At 11.56 13/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > > > >I offered to qualcomm to submit a patch back when 3.1.2 was the latest
> > > > >version, but got no reply.
> > > > >If anyone wants to test out the patch with vanilla 3.1.2, let me know,
> > > > >i'll send it to you. It's about 85k.
> > > > >
> > > > >-Tony
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> > > > >Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
> > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
> > > > >
> > > > > "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
> > > > >http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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> > > > >
> > > > >On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Then put it in. The hard part? Opening up and breaking down
> > > > > > the connection to a SQL server for each connection.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But it's just not THAT hard.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Quoting Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > May be - it's just my opinion - that would be useful to have an
> > > > > option that
> > > > > > > > allows users to configure --disable-... this type of pwnam query. That
> > > > > > > > would allow to check against an external password database without
> > > > > having
> > > > > > > > passwd entries for each user.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > hence the long-time wish for mysql support
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > -Tony
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> > > > > > > Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
> > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
> > > > > > > http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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> > > >
> > > > Nhan NGO DINH
> > > > OCIC Missionary Service
> > > > OCICNet System Administrator
> > > >
> > > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > http://www.ocic.org/missions (OCIC Missionary Service Web Site)
> > > > http://www.ocicnet.net (OCICNet Web Site)
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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