[RADIATOR] UNS: Re: UNS: Re: Best way to log timeout requests

[Dubravko Penezic]

Hi Hugh,

NoReplyHook is what I looking for :) , thanks for explanation.

Regards,
Dubravko

On 6/14/23 08:51, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Hello Dubravko -
>
> As you have noticed, there are several different types of Radiator logs that can be configured.
>
> The first, and most verbose (depending on Trace level), is the server log which can be configured to write to one or more destinations.
>
> The second, and quite often used, is the authentication log which again can write to one or more destinations.
>
> As you have seen however, the authentication log writes the result of an authentication, but in the case of a timeout there is no result hence no log.
>
> There are also optional logs like the statistics log (StatsLog), accounting log (AcctLog) and the generic MessageLog.
>
> See the corresponding sections in the Radiator reference manual (“doc/ref.pdf”).
>
> In your case I would probably write a little NoReplyHook to be used in the AuthBy RADIUS clause to write a separate log with whatever is required.
>
> There are many example hooks of various sorts in the file “goodies/hooks.txt”.
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
>> On 14 Jun 2023, at 16:18, Dubravko Penezic via radiator <radiator at lists.open.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hugh,
>>
>> thank you for information. I found it, just to more clarify to others, that line is part of RADIATOR log /radiator.log), not authlog handler (and that confuse me).
>>
>> Additional, do you have any example to save that type of information in separate file ? :) it will be useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dubravko
>>
>> On 6/14/23 04:05, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>>> Hello Dubravko -
>>> Radiator logs timed out proxy requests like this:
>>> 2b87ecc0 Wed Jun 14 11:59:46 2023 858630: INFO: AuthRADIUS : No reply after 20 seconds and 3 retransmissions to 127.0.0.1 port 1111 for user 'mikem' (233)
>>> 2b87ecc0 Wed Jun 14 11:59:46 2023 859037: INFO: AuthRADIUS : Could not find a working host to forward user 'mikem' (1) after 20 seconds. Ignoring
>>> What additional information would you like to see?
>>> regards
>>> Hugh
>>>> On 9 Jun 2023, at 07:45, Dubravko Penezic via radiator <radiator at lists.open.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i did try to found in documentation and on Internet but didnt found answer on simple question :) ...
>>>>
>>>> How to log timeouted requests on RADIATOR when RADIATOR act like proxy server  ?
>>>>
>>>> Basically log is written once request have final state, or state is set by handler, but timeouted request dosnt have finale state.
>>>>
>>>> It is "big" issue when you try to "debug" some authentication across of RADIUS hierarchy and a lot of proxy server on a path is RADIATOR instance.
>>>>
>>>> For example FreeRADIUS write FAIL in log if request is timeout.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dubravko
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