[CentOS] LDAPs causing System Message Bus to hang when there's no network

Thu Apr 28 15:17:15 UTC 2011
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:03:55PM +0200, Mattias Geniar wrote:


> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> In case you're wondering, this is about the oldest entry (2006):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=186527
> 
> The bind_policy didn't seem to have the wanted effect with me, it kept
> trying to connect to LDAP server even after 10+ failed attempts, taking
> 1m50s on each and every attempt.
> 
> I read quite a few topics on that solving the issue, but it didn't seem
> to be that case in my environment.
> Are there other workarounds/tips if the bind_policy doesn't work? The
> rc.local  hack seems ... ugly ... and embarrassing if a client would
> ever find it out. :-)

Agreed.  I've never known that fix to not work though.  

(Thanks for the input,will have to add that it doesn't work in all
cases t my page).

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