Re: ldap_result() timing out despite no "timelimit"

["Jason J. W. Williams" <jasonjwwilliams [at] gmail.com>]

I'm going to try and get a packet trace when one occurs.

-J

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 14:01 -0600, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm seeing regular intervals where nscld emits a "ldap_result timed out" 
>> error:
>>
>> While I'm debugging this on the server, one thing that is confusing is
>> why NSLCD would be timing out at all since the docs
>> (http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/nslcd.conf.5) say unless
>> "timelimit" is specified it will wait infinitely. Is my reading of the
>> docs correct?
>
> I must say that I also see this in rare occasions (but not on all
> systems), though not as frequent as you.
>
> The problem is that there are a large number of timeout settings that
> could affect LDAP operations and they may not always have wait
> indefinitely as default value.
>
> There are at least the network timeouts but also the search timelimit
> that is enforced by the server and requested by the client. This error
> should not occur if no timelimit option is specified or it is 0 in
> nslcd.conf. From the ldap_result() manual page it seems that it is the
> timeout used for the select() system call.
>
> If you can get more debugging info from one of these timeouts happening
> I would be very interested.
>
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