-.TH RADCLIENT 1 "28 March 2014" "" "FreeRADIUS Daemon"
+.TH RADCLIENT 1 "28 February 2017" "" "FreeRADIUS Daemon"
.SH NAME
radclient - send packets to a RADIUS server, show reply
.SH SYNOPSIS
service is not found in \fI/etc/services\fP, 1813 and 1812 are used
respectively.
+If a host name is specified, then radclient will do a DNS lookup, and
+use the A record to find the IP address of the RADIUS server. If
+there is no A record, then radclient will look for an AAAA record. If
+there is no AAAA record, an error will be produced.
+
+IPv6 addresses may be specified by surrounding it in square brackets.
+For example, [2002:c000:0201:0:0:0:0:0], or with a port,
+[2002:c000:0201:0:0:0:0:0]:18120.
+
The RADIUS attributes read by \fIradclient\fP can contain the special
attribute \fBPacket-Dst-IP-Address\fP. If this attribute exists, then
that IP address is where the packet is sent, and the \fBserver\fP