Ah !! I was pretty sure I had seen some overlay in the past. Thanks for pointing me to this But it seems I can't get it working or maybe I didn't understand it correctly. With some googling I added one such entry: dn: olcOverlay=retcode,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config changetype: add objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcRetcodeConfig olcOverlay: retcode olcRetcodeParent: ou=Users,dc=mydomain olcRetcodeItem: "uid=timeout_user" 0x03 sleeptime=10 Now if I query for 'timeout_user' I should observe a delay of 10 seconds and an error ? How do I induce timeout/timelimit error on the complete base On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 4:31 AM Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com&gt; wrote: > varun mittal wrote: > > Is there any easy way of mocking errors(network timeout, search time > limit exceeded etc.) from OpenLDAP server to test if client exception are > being handled > > properly ? > > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ >