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Re: Many 'Can't contact LDAP server' errors

Just to follow up on my findings on this. After a lot of reading,
searching and postulating the culprit turned out to be the DEBUG! As
soon as I turned debugging/logging off, all the problems went away. I
guess the DEBUG I/O was either hanging the system or just the software,
in either case, it was bad.

Thanks to all who offered assistance. I'm still considering upgrading to
2.3, but AFTER several other issues get resolved.

Thanks again!

John

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 11:50, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, June 20, 2005 10:07 AM -0700 John Duino <jduino@nateng.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings! (I sent this last week but it doesn't appear to have ever
> > made it through to the list.)
> >
> > We are having a problem that seems to be growing. We have openldap
> > deployed across a wan (primary at one site, replicants at remote sites).
> > At present it is only really being used for mail routing and passwords.
> > Some sites have as few as five active people. Systems are dual Xeon,
> > 2GB, RHES3, with sendmail 8.12.11-4 and openldap 2.0.27.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> This may or may not be related to the issues you are seeing, but I will 
> note that OpenLDAP 2.0.27 is an extremely ancient version of OpenLDAP that 
> has been deprecated for a few years now (RedHat unfortunately shipped it 
> much longer than they should have).
> 
> Newer version of OpenLDAP run many times faster than the old 2.0 branch 
> (the currently release is the OpenLDAP 2.3 branch).  So at some point, you 
> probably want to look at upgrading.  Note that issue that are truly related 
> to the 2.0 branch won't really result in a fix for you, since 2.0 is no 
> longer having any development or changes performed on it.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
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> Quanah Gibson-Mount
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> ITSS/Shared Services
> Stanford University
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John Duino <jduino@nateng.com>
National Engineering Technology