ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server

[CFelix]

Hi Community,

I am using FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 and am experiencing a few log entries which I find a bit odd. The log entries mainly contain of: (date is just when I checked last but this happens literally every day)

Code:

Nov 11 12:33:38 freenas nslcd[2573]: [1c25d9] <passwd="super.admin"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:33:38 freenas nslcd[2573]: [b68bf0] <authc="super.admin"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:33:38 freenas nslcd[2573]: [787f7a] <passwd="super.admin"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:44:00 freenas nslcd[2573]: [c0ec8c] <group/member="operator"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:45:00 freenas nslcd[2573]: [ea2ab2] <group/member="root"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:50:00 freenas nslcd[2573]: [99872a] <group/member="root"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:52:23 freenas nslcd[2573]: [7954e0] <passwd="user"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:52:23 freenas nslcd[2573]: [b3adaa] <passwd="user"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:52:23 freenas nslcd[2573]: [5282ab] <passwd="user"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
Nov 11 12:52:23 freenas nslcd[2573]: [062711] <passwd="user"> ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server

I kind of understand and agree with the message for the user "super.admin", "operator" and "root" as they don't have any account on our LDAP server but the "user" has an account on the LDAP server.

At the same time these messages appear in the log, the user can access his TimeMachine Backup in the Freenas and do other LDAP required stuff as well without any problem, so my guess was that messages are some kind of false positives? But since I am not sure, I came here to ask, if anyone would know anything about these messages or maybe has experienced these as well.

The LDAP server is permanently online and can be reached by other software we do have and requires the LDAP, so I don't think it's the LDAP server. I am happy for any help I could get on this as it is quite annoying to have these messages fill up my logs.

Not sure what additional info I could attach but please, if you need more info, I am happy to provide that info!

Thanks in advance

 

[anodos]

It indicates an intermittent connectivity problem with the LDAP server. Perhaps other clients are not seeing the issue due to caching or different logging levels.