[RADIATOR] Bug: Radiator always binds to an accounting port

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 23.5.2023 18.09, Karl Gaissmaier via radiator wrote:

> seems to be a bug or the reference document is wrong:
> 
>> 3.7.7. AcctPort
>> ...
>> Tip
>> You can prevent Radiator from binding to an accounting port by 
>> undefining Acct- Port:
>> # Do not bind to an accounting port:
>> AcctPort

The above should work. Maybe your configuration file sets AcctPort 
sometime later? The default accounting port is 1646. In other words, 
port 1813 is unexpected too.

> this is not working as expected, radiator is always binding to an 
> accounting port:
> 
> Please see this config snippet:

See below for my test. It's the same snippet. I added 'LogDir .' to 
avoid writing under /var/log directory.

>> Trace 4
>> Foreground
>> LogStdout
>>
>> AuthPort        1812
>> AcctPort
>>
>> BindAddress     127.0.0.1, ::1
> 
> 
> and the corresponding debug output when i start the radiator with this 
> test config:
> 
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: DEBUG: This system is IPv6 capable. IPv6 
>> capability provided by: core
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: DEBUG: Creating authentication socket 
>> 127.0.0.1 port 1812
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: DEBUG: Creating accounting socket 127.0.0.1 
>> port 1813
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: DEBUG: Creating authentication socket ::1 
>> port 1812
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: DEBUG: Creating accounting socket ::1 port 1813
>> Tue May 23 17:05:42 2023: NOTICE: Server started: Radiator 4.27 on 
>> MyServer


% cat empty.cfg
LogDir .
Trace 4
Foreground
LogStdout

AuthPort        1812
AcctPort

BindAddress     127.0.0.1, ::1


% perl radiusd -config empty.cfg

Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: Radius::JSON backend is 
Cpanel::JSON::XS version 4.06
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: INFO: Using Radius::UtilXS 2.3
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: SCTP socket API extensions not available
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: Finished reading configuration file 
'empty.cfg'
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: Reading dictionary file 
'/usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary'
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: INFO: Using Net::SSLeay 1.93_01 with SSL/TLS 
library version 0x1010111f (OpenSSL 1.1.1q  5 Jul 2022)
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: SSL/TLS library and Net::SSLeay support 
set_default_passwd_cb and related functions
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: This system is IPv6 capable. IPv6 
capability provided by: core
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: Creating authentication socket 
127.0.0.1 port 1812
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: DEBUG: Creating authentication socket ::1 port 
1812
Thu May 25 17:40:06 2023: NOTICE: Server started: Radiator 4.27 on imac

Thanks,
Heikki

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Heikki Vatiainen
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