Timout for LDAP connection

Christian Schmidt Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Thu Mar 3 08:09:39 UTC 2016


Hello Gordon,

On 29.02.2016 16:18, Gordon Grubert wrote:
> we are using a round robin dns record for connections to our ldap
> system. This works fine for almost all cases. In particular, for
> dovecot does this mean, when an ldap server is stopped, dovecot
> instantly reconnects to another ldap server.
> 
> But when the network connection to the active ldap server is broken,
> dovecot sticks to the failed ldap server. Is there any possibility to
> define a connection timeout?

What about replicating the directory onto the dovecot host and send the
ldap queries to localhost?

Regards
Christian

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