Problems connecting from IdP to LDAP service

[Mark Cairney]

Hi Daniel,

>
> Looks like a TimeLimitExceededException was thrown? Does your idp log 
> confirm that?
>
> --Daniel Fisher
>

That's what we were seeing on Shib 2.1.5. Looking more closely at the 
LDAP query it appeared to be attempting alias dereferencing which was 
slowing down the search considerably. We've worked around it by upping 
the connection timeout and reducing the scope to ONELEVEL.

I suppose there's now 2 questions outstanding:

1. Is there any way to control this behaviour on the Shib side?
2. On the LDAP side, why are these searches taking so long (7 seconds in 
one case)?



-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.