(RADIATOR) AuthBy LDAP2: Hangs for 10 minutes when LDAP Server down

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Ralph -

I have copied this mail to Mike for his comments.

regards

Hugh


On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:07, r.helfenberger at comlight.ch wrote:
> Hello everybody
> I found a timeout problem with Radiator when the LDAP server is down. The
> Radiator is completely blocked for about 13 minutes instead of the
> configured 10 seconds in the configuration file. This happens when one of
> the OpenLDAP serves is completely down (say LDAP_HOST1)
>
> Configuration:
> Radiator:   2.18.3
> Two OpenLDAP Servers.
>
> Configuration file:
>
>         <AuthBy LDAP2>
>                 NoDefault
>
>                 Host           LDAP_HOST1
>                 AuthDN     xxxx
>                 AuthPassword  xxxx
>                 BaseDN         xxxx
>                 UsernameAttr   cn
>                 PasswordAttr   userPassword
>                 Timeout 10
>                 FailureBackoffTime 120
>         </AuthBy>
>
>         <AuthBy LDAP2>
>                 NoDefault
>
>                 Host           LDAP_HOST2
>                 AuthDN     xxxx
>                 AuthPassword  xxxx
>                 BaseDN         xxxx
>                 UsernameAttr   cn
>                 PasswordAttr   userPassword
>                 Timeout 10
>                 FailureBackoffTime 120
>         </AuthBy>
>
> What I see in the logfile:
> Fri Jun 28 15:06:18 2002: DEBUG: Handling with Radius::AuthLDAP2:
> Fri Jun 28 15:06:18 2002: INFO: Connecting to 192.168.190.24, port 389
> Fri Jun 28 15:19:27 2002: ERR: Could not open LDAP connection to
> 192.168.190.24, port 389. Backing off for 120 seconds.
> Fri Jun 28 15:19:27 2002: DEBUG: Handling with Radius::AuthLDAP2:
> Fri Jun 28 15:19:27 2002: INFO: Connecting to 192.168.190.236, port 389
> Fri Jun 28 15:19:27 2002: INFO: Attempting to bind with cn=radpay,
> ou=Users, ou=Administration, ou=Sunrise, o=Sunrise, c=ch, radpay (ser
>
> The problem: between line 2 und 3 there is a gap of 13 minutes where the
> radiator was completely blocked.
>
> Did anybody else encounter such a problem? Is there a solution?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Best regards
>
> Ralph Helfenberger

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