Re: (ITS#4691) syncrepl in refreshOnly dies when bind to provider fails

[hyc@symas.com]

I don't see any indication of an OpenLDAP software bug here.
Use the "retry" parameter if your connections are unreliable.

bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net wrote:
> Full_Name: Buchan Milne
> Version: 2.3.27
> OS: Linux 2.4 (RHEL 3)
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (196.15.129.131)
> 
> 
> One of our replicas sits on the other side of a relatively congested WAN link
> (with multiple firewalls in between, which I have no control over).
> 
> Since switching to syncrepl, it has been difficult to achieve a configuration
> that supports replication reliably to any extent.
> 
> Using syncrepl consumer configuration with:
> 
> syncrepl rid=124
>         provider=ldaps://<master hostname>
>         type=refreshOnly
>         interval="00:00:01:00"
>         searchbase="<suffix>"
>         scope=sub
>         attrs="*"
>         schemachecking=off
>         bindmethod=simple
>         binddn="<dn for consumer>"
>         credentials="<password for consumer>"
> 
> I see replication dies frequently, it seems to occur when (for whatever reason)
> the consumer fails to bind:

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