Re: [Bodington-developers] LDAP Authentication - OpenLDAP versus JNDI

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

> Seriously, if you've only got until Saturday why worry about sockets?  
> The LDAP server should have a default idle timeout that would cover  
> in the first instance.
>   
It's sorted - quite easy really.   I'll explain why it's important - 
Leeds has about 8 different servers whose IP numbers are all mapped to a 
single DNS name.  Any server can be brought down for maintenance at any 
time. So, I've added code that resolves the complete list of IP numbers 
against the configured ldap server name. It then cycles around them 
until a connection is made.  (Also does some load balancing.) If a 
server is running but not accepting connections on the ldap port the 
attempt to connect fails immediately but if the server is not running at 
all the timeout is several minutes.  This is a pointless delay if there 
are other LDAP servers ready and waiting.

Anyway it was quite easy to implement.

Jon