Hello, Getting conflicting responses.. Jani Lahti says it wont reach Host 4 while you say it should ?
IMHO from reading the documentation it should reach Host 4 for the same reason you describe but just wanted to make sure that is how it's supposed to be working, I have yet to try this in a real-world scenario tho. Regards, Patrik Forsberg > -----Original Message----- > From: radiator <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Heikki > Vatiainen via radiator > Sent: den 29 december 2025 14:18 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RADIATOR] Question regarding MaxTargetHosts > > Patrik Forsberg wrote: > > > Have a small question regarding MaxTargetHosts in AuthBy Radius. > > Will this limit the number of hosts ask regardless of the hosts status or > > if the > hosts is unavailable for the moment will the request continue on without > counting it against this counter ? > > A working Host is looked up first and only those that should be working are > counted against MaxTargetHosts limit. In other words, it doesn't count Hosts > that are unavailable. > > > Say I have MaxTargetHosts set to 2 > > Host 1 - is unavailable/down > > Host 2 - is available - doesn't respond (request ignored) Host 3 - is > > unavailable/down Host 4 - is available - responds with a reject > > > > Will it ever reach Host 4 as long as MaxTargetHosts is set to 2 ? > > It will reach Host 4. Hosts 1 and 3 are never considered. > > Hosts 1 and 3 are immediately skipped until the failure backoff time or > Status- > Server brings them up again. If you see different results, please let us > know. It > should act as a limit of trying hosts that should work. > > With a number of retries and multiple hosts, the eventual response may come > long after a client has already given up when some hosts should be working > but they don't respond. > > Thanks, > Heikki > > -- > Heikki Vatiainen > Radiator Software, makers of Radiator > Visit radiatorsoftware.com for Radiator AAA server software > > _______________________________________________ > radiator mailing list > [email protected] > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists. > open.com.au%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fradiator&data=05%7C02%7Cpatrik. > forsberg%40globalconnect.se%7Ce80b0652d055416f412708de46dced27% > 7Cdfbb0d3b8276458197a42b844a84ea35%7C0%7C0%7C6390261118520 > 11972%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOi > IwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7 > C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cSwoFOegfFcGAZto9JYQFArGy4pGLj4jPdL4WFKEAOs > %3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ radiator mailing list [email protected] https://lists.open.com.au/mailman/listinfo/radiator
