Re: Connection timeout

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Howard Chu wrote:
>
> > > What I am seeing is a timeout of a minute before switching to Server2.
> > That would be normal when trying to contact a nonexistent host, and 
> > depends entirely on your kernel's TCP stack/connection timeouts. As 
> > already noted, you can explicitly set a shorter timeout using 
> > LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT.
>
> Which I've now built into our applications, as OpenLDAP itself would 
> appear to have no support for this situation.  I suppose I should 
> contribute a patch or something, along the lines of "CONN_TIMEOUT 5" etc.

That is definitely something we consider to be application-specific. Building 
the setting into your app is the correct solution.

In general, settings in the config file must always be overridable, so a new 
config option would also need to provide a new command line argument for the 
ldap* tools.

Otherwise, you might find yourself unable to ldapsearch a distant LDAP server 
because your timeout that you tuned for your local servers is too short...
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