Persistent LDAP connection?

[Eric P. <li...@gl...>]

Hi,

    I'm trying to get a perl script I've written to stay connected to
my LDAP server between searches...
This works great, until I take the LDAP server offline for a moment...
What happens is that I the next $ldaps->search comes around, which
results in a "Broken Pipe" and the program exiting.
I'd obviously prefer if, before that point, a check could be done, and
if the connection was dropped, try reconnecting.

So basically, is it possible to have a persistent ldap connection &
bind that will re-connect if disconnected?

I was unable to find anything in the archives with a clear solution...

Thanks,

Eric Parusel