Question 360
A campus AAA deployment has two RADIUS servers, but requests continue timing out because both hostnames resolve to the same failed address. Which failure mechanism best explains the observed behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The symptoms fit this mechanism. A targeted response is to correct AAA server resolution or target definitions to use genuinely independent reachable endpoints, followed by verification that after one server failure authentication continues through the surviving distinct endpoint.
Incorrect Answers
That explanation fits a different case, such as when staff Wi-Fi clients have correct certificates but the RADIUS server cannot see authentication requests after a network ACL update. The symptoms here are better explained by configured redundancy is illusory when both server entries point to one unavailable destination.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when an access controller accepts a staff user from RADIUS but assigns the guest role because the expected role attribute is absent. The symptoms here are better explained by configured redundancy is illusory when both server entries point to one unavailable destination.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a corporate certificate was revoked, yet a connected endpoint retains network access indefinitely because no session reauthentication or revocation response occurs. The symptoms here are better explained by configured redundancy is illusory when both server entries point to one unavailable destination.