Re: Connection timeout

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> > That is definitely something we consider to be application-specific. Building
> > the setting into your app is the correct solution.
> >
> > In general, settings in the config file must always be overridable, so a new
> > config option would also need to provide a new command line argument for the
> > ldap* tools.
> >
> > Otherwise, you might find yourself unable to ldapsearch a distant LDAP server
> > because your timeout that you tuned for your local servers is too short...
>
> But there is a default setting, the point is just that it's hard-coded.
> Having it system-configurable and user-configurable would not hurt, IMO

You haven't thought it through. If a config file universally sets a short value 
and a particular application is not written to handle timeouts and retries then 
it will fail mysteriously. Application code must be aware of timeouts and since 
they must be explicitly coded for them already, it is only appropriate to leave 
this setting to them.

libldap has no default setting for the connection timeout, that is purely an 
OS/kernel item.
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