Losing LDAP connections intermittently

I keep losing connection with the LDAP server from my Jive Messenger Server? This was working fine a while back but after i installed Windows 2003 updates recently this started happening? All my users get kicked out because of this.

Has anyone else faced the same issue?

Regards

Samad

I see the following in the debug log:

2005.10.29 11:44:49 Exception thrown when searching for userDN based on username ‘‘jiveadmin’’

javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException: 10.50.1.231:389; socket closed; remaining name ‘’’’

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.readReply(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getSearchReply(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.search(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.doSearch(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_search(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(Unknown Source)

at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.search(Unknown Source)

at org.jivesoftware.messenger.ldap.LdapManager.findUserDN(LdapManager.java:454)

at org.jivesoftware.messenger.ldap.LdapManager.findUserDN(LdapManager.java:400)

at org.jivesoftware.messenger.ldap.LdapAuthProvider.authenticate(LdapAuthProvider. java:88)

at org.jivesoftware.messenger.auth.AuthFactory.authenticate(AuthFactory.java:114)

at org.jivesoftware.messenger.admin.login_jsp._jspService(login_jsp.java:138)

at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:688)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:427)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:822)

at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:39)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:813)

at org.jivesoftware.util.LocaleFilter.doFilter(LocaleFilter.java:43)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:813)

at org.jivesoftware.util.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingF ilter.java:41)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:813)

at org.jivesoftware.admin.AuthCheckFilter.doFilter(AuthCheckFilter.java:98)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(WebApplica tionHandler.java:813)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler. java:494)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:569)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.ja va:624)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1434)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:896)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:814)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:981)

at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:831)

at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:244)

at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:366)

at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534)

I noticed this happening only after i installed Windows 2003 SP1. Has anyone else experienced the same?

I tried uninstalling SP1 and everything started working fine.

Thanks

Samad