Re: How determine if persistent Net::LDAP object is alive?

Dear Andrej,

On 23/02/12 06:56 +1300, Andrej wrote:
>On 22 February 2012 18:20, Nick Urbanik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Folks,
>>
>> We use a lot of busy OpenLDAP servers and a lot of Perl, with
>> persistent Net::LDAP connections to the servers.  The problem is:
>> How good is the connection to the server?
>
>Not that I'm an expert perl coder, or know Net::LDAP that well ... but
>if you hit that snag (, would it make sense to have a look at
>
>http://search.cpan.org/~mws/ResourcePool-Resource-Net-LDAP-1.0002/

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have looked at the code, which does no
more to verify the aliveness of the connection beyond attempt a bind.
Perhaps that is a better check than doing a base scoped search for the
top-level entry in the directory tree, I don't know.

But surely we are far from alone in dealing with this problem.  The
problem is this:

1. For a busy server, using persistent LDAP connections is essential.
2. These connections time out.
3. The code needs to verify that the connection is still alive before
    depending on it to do an operation we care about.

So how do you all solve item 3?
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