- # If the home server does not respond to ANY packets for
- # a certain time, consider it dead. This time period is
- # called the "zombie" period, because the server is neither
- # alive nor dead.
+ # If you want the old behavior of the server rejecting
+ # proxied requests after "response_window" timeout, set
+ # the following configuration item to "yes".
+ #
+ # This configuration WILL be removed in a future release
+ # If you believe you need it, email the freeradius-users
+ # list, and explain why it should stay in the server.
+ #
+# no_response_fail = no
+
+ #
+ # If the home server does not respond to ANY packets during
+ # the "zombie period", it will be considered to be dead.
+ #
+ # A home server that is marked "zombie" will be used for
+ # proxying as a low priority. If there are live servers,
+ # they will always be preferred to a zombie. Requests will
+ # be proxied to a zombie server ONLY when there are no
+ # live servers.
+ #
+ # Any request that is proxied to a home server will continue
+ # to be sent to that home server until the home server is
+ # marked dead. At that point, it will fail over to another
+ # server, if a live server is available. If none is available,
+ # then the "post-proxy-type fail" handler will be called.