Re: how to handle connection to server if server runs away?

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

Net::LDAP should only attempt to connect once. To reconect its up to the
application.

Mark

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Bing Du wrote:

> Greetings all...
> 
> I have a client script to do routine mass search and update on our ldap
> server. The script is set up to run at 1:30am in a crontab file and
> usually it takes about 5 hours to finish its work.  All the script's
> activities are recorded in a log file.
> 
> One day lately, I noticed in the log file that the script started at
> the designated time (1:30am).  But an error message 'I/O Error
> Connection reset by peer' on a search showed up at about 10:30am (about
> 10 hours later).
> 
> Was it because I did not set up any timelimit on 'new'ing a connection
> and search()?
> 
> According to 'perldoc Net::LDAP', if not set explicitly, the default is
> 120 (I assume the unit is second) will be used as the value of timeout
> in the following operation.
> 
>      $ld = new Net::LDAP($ldap_server,port => $ldap_port) || die "Can't
> connect!!!";
> 
> Also timelimit can be set in search(). If not set, the default is no
> limit.
> 
> Is it possible with Net::LDAP to specify reconnect attempts if the ldap
> server goes away (with appropriate limits on time between attempts and
> on the total number of attmepts to connect)? 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Bing
> 
>