On 2013-10-11 13:56, Caporossi, Steve G. wrote:
> We also have issues with NXOS; in our case using RADIUS.
>
> It always seems to begin with these syslog messages;
> 2013 Oct 10 19:56:14.103 mdf1 %RADIUS-3-RADIUS_ERROR_MESSAGE: Failed looking 
> up IP address for RADIUS server <server address>
> 2013 Oct 10 19:56:14.105 mdf1 %RADIUS-3-RADIUS_ERROR_MESSAGE: Failed looking 
> up IP address for RADIUS server <server address>
> 2013 Oct 10 19:56:14.106 mdf1 %RADIUS-3-RADIUS_ERROR_MESSAGE: Failed looking 
> up IP address for RADIUS server <server address>
> 2013 Oct 10 19:56:14.107 mdf1 %RADIUS-3-RADIUS_ERROR_MESSAGE: All RADIUS 
> servers failed to respon
> d after retries.
>
>  Authentication fails and we to fallback to local authentication to "fix" the 
> issue by sending test authentication to the RADIUS servers.
>
> We have the DNS entries configured on the Nexus devices and when this is 
> happening the device can ping the servers using the hostname. Another strange 
> thing is it happens primarily in one VDC and much less frequently on the 
> others using the same OOB management network.
What do you mean with 'dns entries configured *on* the Nexus'? Does it
happen too if you configure the radius servers ip addresses instead of
their dns names?

@Radiator guys: any update from you?

>
> Steve
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Alexander Hartmaier 
> <alexander.hartma...@t-systems.at>
>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> our switching guys reported that their Cisco Nexus switches running NX-OS 
>> log that their can't reach the tacacs servers. This is what the 
>> troubleshooting brought up:
>>
>> 2013 Oct 11 08:47:37.061 sgv20s %TACACS-3-TACACS_ERROR_MESSAGE: All servers 
>> failed to respond
>>
>>  
>> 149) Event:E_MTS_TX, length:60, at 60683 usecs after Fri Oct 11 08:47:37 2013
>>
>>     [RSP] Opc:MTS_OPC_TACACS_AAA_REQ(8421), Id:0X0A287795, Ret:SUCCESS
>>
>>     Src:0x00000501/112, Dst:0x00000501/111, Flags:None
>>
>>     HA_SEQNO:0X00000000, RRtoken:0x0A287778, Sync:UNKNOWN, Payloadsize:26
>>
>>     Payload:    
>>
>>     0x0000:  01 03 01 00 3b a2 66 be 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 
>>
>>  
>>  
>> 150) Event:E_MTS_RX, length:60, at 46447 usecs after Fri Oct 11 08:47:37 2013
>>
>>     [REQ] Opc:MTS_OPC_TACACS_AAA_REQ(8421), Id:0X0A287778, Ret:SUCCESS
>>
>>     Src:0x00000501/111, Dst:0x00000501/0, Flags:None
>>
>>     HA_SEQNO:0X00000000, RRtoken:0x0A287778, Sync:UNKNOWN, Payloadsize:371
>>
>>     Payload:    
>>
>>     0x0000:  01 03 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 
>>
>>
>> According to Cisco the accounting responses from Radiator (version 4.11 with 
>> patches revision 1.1530) contain errors:
>>
>> Accounting Statistics
>>
>>         failed transactions: 1865
>>
>>         successful transactions: 0
>>
>>         requests sent: 1865
>>
>>         requests timed out: 4
>>
>>         responses with no matching requests: 0
>>
>>         responses not processed: 0
>>
>>         responses containing errors: 1861
>>
>>
>> Did someone else notice these problems? Authentication works without any 
>> problems.
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards, Alexander Hartmaier
>>
>> T-Systems Austria GesmbH
>> TSS Security Services
>> Network Security & Monitoring Engineer
>>
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