(ITS#3680) Meta failsafe operation

[michael.med@r-it.at]

Full_Name: Michael Med
Version: 2.2.24
OS: Solaris 8
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Submission from: (NULL) (193.110.28.9)


We use openldap as metadirectory for two independent ldap servers.
simplified setup:

# first ldap server
database meta
suffix "o=company1,dc=central"
uri "ldap://srv1/";
# second ldap server
database meta
suffix "o=company2,dc=central"
uri "ldap://srv2/";

Assume there is temporary problem with one of the servers (network
unavailable).
After the failed server has become online again new client connections work
pretty fine but existing connections still do not retry the failed server.
I would suggest a functionality where failed servers are tried after a
given timeout.