Subject: multiple ldap servers / hang

From: Stuart Kendrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:22:07 -0800 (PST)

hi,

i have a couple of feature requests around ldap / address look-ups.

if i type a partially qualified name into the "To:" field in pine and if
the first ldap server returned in the relevant DNS look-up is down, pine
will hang, sending TCP SYNs forever, despite the fact that the DNS look-up
for the ldap server returned multiple responses.

e.g. if the DNS response for "ldap.company.com" returns
10.1.2.3
10.1.2.4
10.1.2.5

and if 10.1.2.3 is down or otherwise unresponsive, pine won't fail-over to
10.1.2.4 or 10.1.2.5 ... nor will the "^C Cancel" command work ... pine
just hangs there, sending TCP SYNs ad infinitum, until killed or until
10.1.2.3 starts responding.

my feature requests:
-^C Cancel would kill the look-up effort
-pine would fail-over to each of the other ldap servers returned in the
DNS response, as needed.  if all fail, then pine would return some kind of
error msg.

if anyone knows of a work-around for either of these, plse let me know.

--sk

Stuart Kendrick
FHCRC

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