Thanks for the advice. Regarding the soft_bind option for openldap: I
can't seem to find any documentation for this option. Do you have a
link to a site describing this?

On 1/8/09, Adam Jacob <a...@hjksolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote:
> > I've noticed that on servers that are both puppet and LDAP clients,
> > the puppet client will hang if the LDAP server is not reachable. Does
> > anyone know what the reason for this is?
>
> You should start using nscd (or your platform equivilant,) which will
> at least allow your name service lookups to complete.  If you are
> using OpenLDAP, ensure that you have soft_bind set on the clients.
>
> If you are using nss_ldap, I recommend looking at nss_ldapd 
> (http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/nss-ldapd/design.html
> ) as a super nice replacement.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
> >
>

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