OpenLDAP Team, Seems to be a bug in OpenLDAP 2.4.8 configured in Proxy mode with --enable-ldap and --enable-rewrite The proxy config is database ldap suffix "o=<O>" # List of proxy servers delimited by space # uri <Server List> uri "ldap://<Main>:<port>/ ldap://<Secondary>:<port>/" When the "Main" was running, all requests were passed onto Main. I brought it down and saw that the requests were sent to "Secondary" server. After sometime, I brought the Main server back to live simulating a recovery from crash. The requests were still redirected to "Secondary" despite the "Main" server being accessible. I brought down the "Secondary" server and the requests were directed to Main server.!! Is this the correct behaviour? ( I believe that the server in the head of the list should be contacted everytime a request comes to proxy! )