Freezing v3-2-stable (2nd edition)

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:21:24PM +0200, Björn Jacke wrote:
> 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.

Sure. I meant to try to default both to the "ldap timeout"
in case this is set explicitly. If no explicit ldap timeout
is set, I agree that a shorter connect timeout has benefits,
but I don't want to change behaviour for those who
consciously did set that parameter to something.

Volker
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