Failover with Active Directory

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 17, 2020, at 7:57 AM, Robert Miller <miller.robertw at outlook.com> wrote:
> This was set to net_timeout = 1  

  That's good.

>>  But to be realistic, that timeout might not work on older versions of libldap
>> before 2.4.  And there's very little that we can do to fix it.  FreeRADIUS
>> doesn't implement the LDAP protocol.  Instead it relies on the OpenLDAP
>> libldap libraries.  And if those libraries don't time out quickly enough, we can't
>> do much about it.
> 
> What version of libldap does freeradius 3.0.17 contain? If prior to 2.4, will upgrading to 3.0.22 fix that?

  My point was that FreeRADIUS does NOT contain libldap.  It's a separate piece of software.  You'll have to look at your OS to see which version of libldap it supplies.

  Alan DeKok.