Eric, Reproducing it is possible, you just have to keep hitting f5, but it occurs at random. Maybe once ever hour, maybe once every ten mins. I would say that rebuilding the httpd server with a patch may be beyond me, certainly beyond my sanity level at the moment. I may look at setting up a packet trace tomorrow if I have time. In your opinion though, there's nothing up with the setup or the configuration bits I posted? Olly -----Original Message----- From: Eric Covener [mailto:covener@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 January 2009 20:49 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sudden "Can't Contact LDAP Server" Can you easily reproduce this _and_ easily rebuild your httpd with a patch? The current code retries in rapid succession without any delay. Interesting that based on the context this seemed to happen on a "new" child process. I'd be interestedif you've ever been able to capture this under a packet trace -- does the connection attempt ever hit the wire? Finally, i'd expect openldap bugs would be the ones of interest, unless I'm misunderstanding. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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