slapd-ldap and backend errors

[John Madden <jmadden@ivytech.edu>]

While setting up and testing new 2.4 infra (2.4.33), I've come across 
the situation where the proxy (slapd-ldap) doesn't pass LDAP_UNAVAILABLE 
back to the client when the backend slapd goes away.  Is this behavior 
configurable on the proxy, something along the lines of chain-return-error?

Example: connect to the backend slapd and ldapsearch a long-running 
query, then shut down slapd and the client provides the proper "error 
can't contact."  Duplicate that behavior while searching against the 
proxy and you simply get a truncated list of entries with no errors.

Thanks,
  John





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