Any inputs on this one ?

The client timeout parameter works for individual search page or the entire
time period of the search, if there are multiple pages ?


On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 2:07 PM varun mittal <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am using openldap-2.4.39 on CentOS 7, to query my AD server, with
> python-ldap wrapper
>
> I set the following scheme:
>
> ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, 30)
> ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_TIMEOUT, 120)
> conn = ldap.initialize(ldap://server-ip)
>
> Using 3 types of queries - synchronous search_s(), asynchronous with and
> without paging search_ext()
>
> I am not using any timeout in the _ext method or the result3() methods
>
> One of my python client LDAP searches(asynchronous with paging) took about
> 14 minutes to complete, in the customer environment. Eventually, the search
> was successful.
>
> Looking at the documentation, I am not sure which timeout value would be
> applicable here.
>
> I thought setting OPT_TIMEOUT should suffice for all kinds of searches.
>
> And the strange thing is that the similar query, but synchronous(
> ldap_search_ext_s) from my C client failed within 120 seconds. This is
> the default AD server timelimit. The C application didn't specify any
> timeouts
>
> What am I missing here?
>

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