Global Bind Timeout

[Michael Ströder]

Kai,

sorry for answering late.

Steverding, Kai wrote:
> 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 simulated this by using a firewall rule dropping IP packets.

> 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 ?

Use something like this for setting the network timeout before the simple bind:

     l = LDAPObject(ldap_url.initializeUrl())
     l.protocol_version = 3
     l.network_timeout = 2.5 # connect timeout 2500 msec
     l.simple_bind_s()

Note that the l.simple_bind_s() raises the LDAPError exception 
ldap.SERVER_DOWN, not ldap_url.initializeUrl().

The behaviour might only work with recent python-ldap (2.0.0pre14+ according 
to CHANGES) and OpenLDAP libs (tested on my system with python-ldap 2.0.2 
and OpenLDAP 2.2.17 libs).

Ciao, Michael.