Freezing v3-2-stable (2nd edition)

[Björn Jacke]

Hi Jerry, hi Jeremy,

afer some internal discussion with Volker I convinced him that 
it's not the worst thing not to default "ldap connection timeout" to 
"ldap timeout" when that parameter was set explicitly. One good argument 
is the problem that is described in 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4544 . There is no point in 
defaulting the connection timeout to the old ldap timeout because in the 
situation where a connection timeout occured because the ldap server 
host is *down*, then we currently run into a tcp timeout which is anyway 
much longer than the ldap timeout.

To cut a long story short: the patch from 
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3504 could be considered to 
be complete. Do you have any objections to check it in?

Björn


On 2008-04-21 at 17:21 +0200 Björn Jacke sent off:
> On 2008-04-21 at 17:06 +0200 Volker Lendecke sent off:
> > Can we make the specific timeouts to default to "ldap
> > timeout", so that we don't change existing installations?
> 
> having the "ldap connection timeout" *not* the default of "ldap 
> timeout" is in fact a big advantage. In case of a setup 
> like
> 
> passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://unreachable:389 ldap://reachable:389"
> 
> we (or better said the LDAP libs) would timeout after infinit 15s 
> to fall back to ldap://reachable:389 which might be too long for 
> clients waiting for us to answer. Telling the LDAP libs to wait for 2s 
> for an initial connection atempt reply and then try the next host 
> makes the fallback mechanism work better IMHO.
> 
> Cheers
> Björn
> -- 
> SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen
> phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9
> AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen



-- 
SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen
phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9
AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20080514/970bc07f/attachment.bin