On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Howard Chu wrote:
The network timeout only controls how long to wait for a connection to be opened.
Ah, thanks for that.
The OPT_TIMEOUT option does nothing at all in OpenLDAP 2.3 and older; it appears to have been introduced early on with ever being implemented. It actually works in OpenLDAP 2.4.
Best argument I've seen to upgrade...