This most likely means that the communication link between the program and the LDAP server went awry. This could be caused by the server or the network. My advice would be to test for this message, then restart, assuming taht it only happens once in a while.
--Jim On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Reena John wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I use Net::LDAP in a script that does a daily search on a large LDAP > database (~80,000 entries). The expected return from the search is ~2000 > entries. One run of the script threw up this error: > > my $mesg = $ldap->search(base=>...); > $mesg->error was "I/O Error Connection reset by peer" > > I dont think this has anything to do with an ldap search size limit. For > one thing, I expect to get a "sizelimit exceeded" error in that case and I > have error-handling for that and the other thing is that I dont expect to > exceed the size limit. > > I use Net::LDAP 0.2701 with Perl 5.6.1 on Solaris 5.8. The ldap server is > IDDS 4.5.3 (Innosoft). > I found a similar posting but with no solution on the perl-ldap-dev list on > Oct 16 2002 (Graham Barr replies on Oct 17) in which the writer gets the > same error while doing a search. He uses a different OS, different ldap > server and I would assume a smaller db. Snip from his mail: > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3482/2002/10/0/ > "Redhat 7.2 > > Perl 5.6.1 > > perl-ldap 0.26 > > Convert::BER 1.31 ( I > updated it because I read it could be guilty) > > the server is a Windows > 2000 Advanced server SP2" > > Any idea what this error means and how I can prevent it from recurring? > > thanks, > Reena > > > Reena John > >
