conserver exit on failed NSS lookup

Hi,

I'm running conserver on a host that uses LDAP for the user database,
and sometimes we have problems with that. However, shouldn't conserver
simply survive and return an error if the NSS lookup failed? Why exit?

[Mon Jun 22 16:20:42 2009] conserver (3005): [pcitfiot05] exit(1)
conserver: ldap-nss.c:1319: do_init: Assertion `cfg->ldc_uris[__session.ls_current_uri] != ((void *)0)' failed.

cheers,

Andras