"jorgemoralespou_2" wrote : | 6- In node-2 Ldap recreates connections succesfully. (Note we haven't touched this server at all) I am not sure if you are doing the farm deployment , if you are doing so then I would expect the deployment changes to get reflected across nodes . http://www.wideopen.com/docs/manuals/jboss/jboss-eap-4.2/doc/Server_Confi... Let us see if you can simulate it at your end , you should perform these steps 1) Make min-connection=max-connection=3 . 2) Use prefill tag to prefill the pool at both nodes. 3) Now shutdown the ldap . 4) Go to node 1 and see if application gets the stale connection , it should . 5) Try the [4] with node2 . 6) redeploy the -ds.xml in node1 and see if application can now connect to ldap , it should . 7) check if the application at node2 can connect to ldap now .Let me know if you it . View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4160771#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...