[Dovecot] auth: Error: LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 30 12:41:26 EEST 2011


On 30.8.2011, at 9.38, Angel L. Mateo wrote:

>> Why? If LDAP server idle-disconnects after 61 seconds and before NAT
>> timeout then Dovecot doesn't log anything about it.
>> 
> 	I have tried this. My LDAP server closed the connection, but dovecot logged the message. I guess that, for dovecot, is the same situation: it has to auth a user, but it hasn't got any active connection to the ldap server.

Yeah, that happens if the disconnection is noticed at the time when user is trying to authenticate. But if the disconnection is noticed immediately when there are no user requests, there is also no message logged about it.




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