Hello, We are currently integrating several apache instances with LDAP for authentication, this works wonderfull for one exception and that is LDAP failover. If the primary LDAP server is not available the failover/switch towards the second entry in the config only happens after minutes. Our testing platform runs Centos 5, and has the following versions/apps installed: httpd-2.2.3-7, openldap-2.3.27-5, openssl-0.9.8b-8.3 It was tested with and without ssl (over 636/tcp) and starttls (via 389/tcp) and plain (over 389/tcp) none of these performed a successfull/quick failover. The end goal would be either ssl or starttls based ldap connectivity. The preference would be to failover if there is no 3 way tcp handshake after 2 seconds or an query is not returned within 2 seconds. We tried lowering the apache "timeout" option, and attempted .ldaprc and environment variables voor openldap: LDAPNETWORK_TIMEOUT="2" LDAPTIMEOUT="2" LDAPTLS_CACERTDIR="/etc/SSL/CA" Any suggestions how to proceed? Test Configuration failover ldap: --------------------------------- # LDAP Test SJC LDAPSharedCacheSize 200000 LDAPCacheEntries 1024 LDAPCacheTTL 600 LDAPOpCacheEntries 1024 LDAPOpCacheTTL 600 LDAPConnectionTimeout 2 LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/httpd/SSL/CA.pem LDAPVerifyServerCert on <Location /ldap-status> SetHandler ldap-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 10.0.0.0/23 AuthName "LDAP Status" AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off AuthLDAPURL "ldap://192.168.1.40 172.16.1.40/ou=People,ou=Users,o=Corp?cn?sub" STARTTLS AuthLDAPBindDN "cn=Apache01,ou=ServiceAccounts,ou=Users,o=Corp" AuthLDAPBindPassword "<<REMOVED>>" Require valid-user </Location> # End of LDAP Test SJC Thanks in advance, Stijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx