On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Marc Langer wrote:
> in my "ldap_default_servers" option there are three or four
> LDAP servers, but I have the impression that Exim doesn't remember
> if a server is down (connect-timeout) and tries it for each
> query again.
Correct. But shouldn't a down server give an immediate connection
refused rather than a timeout?
> It would be much nicer if the failover to another LDAP server were more
> smoothly, similar to deferred addresses: retry in configured intervals,
> automatically use secondary server until next retry time if primary
> server was down.
>
> Philip, is there any possibility to get this implemented in future
> releases? :-)
I have added this to the Wish List. However, the Wish List is very long
at the moment.
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