Global Bind Timeout

[Steverding, Kai]

I want to write a monitor for a ldap server in python. Now  i have the
problem, that the client hangs for about 3 minutes if the servers istn't
available. (eg the server reboots,so there is no connection refused or
something like that). I'd like to throw an error if the server-bind doesn't
work after 20 seconds or so. I found the timeout for result, but nothing
about a "bind-timeout". What can i do ?

Kai