Hi Andy, that was the cookie, I wondered if there was a bug behind the
scenes in terms of an unsuccessful login code not being processed
correctly as a rejection, but instead rolled down to the next LDAP
server, which is what happens if a) the server is unavailable, b) the
LDAP search for DN doesnt get any response.
I'm surprised that they managed to get a bug into the LDAP code, it's
pretty straightforward. Right, back to my 7.1 upgrade....
Cheers
Jim
Andrew Powell wrote:
>Hi Jim,
>
>Are you talking about the "auth.type.ldap.num_servers=X" in the
>authentication.properties file - because this (as I understand it) is used
>to state how many LDAP servers you have configured to query (in our case)
>the number of domain controllers on site.
>
>We also thought this may have an influence on the number of attempts made by
>blackboard; so set it to one domain controller and monitored the traffic
>between the servers. This was not the cause. (Nice idea however!)
>
>We have received an email back from blackboard reporting it is a known issue
>– since blackboard 7 and have been added to the list of customers with this
>issue.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Andy
>
>
>Andrew Powell
>Web Systems Database Administrator
>Computing Services
>Canterbury Christ Church University
>
>
>
>
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