Question 760
A campus AAA deployment has two RADIUS servers, but requests continue timing out because both hostnames resolve to the same failed address. Which ongoing operational safeguard best reduces the chance of recurrence?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is a continuing control for the failure mode in which configured redundancy is illusory when both server entries point to one unavailable destination. It complements the immediate fix instead of relying on a one-off correction.
Incorrect Answers
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when a switch shows an EAP failure but engineers alter the user's VLAN before confirming whether the supplicant completed authentication. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when a corporate EAP-TLS enrollment works for most laptops but newly issued devices lack the required client certificate. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when an access switch performs 802.1X on user ports, but unauthenticated clients are placed into production VLAN by an incorrect fallback policy. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.