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[nssldap] Confused in bind_policy hard/soft in ldap.conf for multiple URI's

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[nssldap] Confused in bind_policy hard/soft in ldap.conf for multiple URI's



I am using RHEL 5.5 against an OpenLDAP server.

My setup has multiple LDAP servers

For using /etc/ldap.conf [nss_ldap-253-25.el5], I am totally bumped as to
what values to use for:
1. bind_timelimit
2. bind_policy soft/hard

The link:
http://old.nabble.com/No-timeout-for...d14576190.html

says that for multiple LDAP URI's , bind_policy soft will never fallback to
second LDAP server if first is down.
However I could see that it switches to second server(which was up) when
first one was down.
Is there something I am missing here ?

Also, with bind_policy hard, and all the servers down, I could see an
exponential sleep and then retry to connect to LDAP server
I thought bind_timelimit will be the governing parameter for this sleep
time, but no success

Any ideaz anyone ?

This is really urgent. Thanks in advance for all the help anyone can give