On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:51:10PM +0000, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

As far as I understand from the code, libldap already behaves like that, i.e. it loops through all the hosts returned by getaddrinfo(3). What's missing (in your configuration of ldapsearch) is a network timeout parameter. Right now, you can set it either using NETWORK_TIMEOUT in ldap.conf(5) or passing the command-line switch -o nettimeout=<timeout>. I understand the latter is not documented in ldapsearch(1), although it appears in the usage message of all tools.

wonderful, confirmed that it works. so then yes, just a minor omission from the documentation :)

sean