frozen bind instruction

[Nicolas C. <nch...@co...>]

Dear all,

I would like to know if there is any possibility of timeout with the 
perl-ldap bind instruction.

This is linked to the following troubleshooting : I have got machine A 
redhat 6.2 
with perl script and machine B sunOs 5.6 with ldap database.
When the B sun machine is powered on I can bind to it succesfully with the 
following line on machine A :
        $mesg = $ldap->bind($ldap_dn, password=>$ldap_password);
When I shut the B sun machine down or just stop nds service, the bind 
isn't possible from A and
that is normal. The problem is when I suspend system state on the sun B 
machine , then the perl
script is blocked at the above line.

Thanks a lot for any help or suggestion. 

Best regards, 
Nicolas Christophe