Bug 254171 - Automatic DNS discovery of the LDAP server does not work
Summary: Automatic DNS discovery of the LDAP server does not work
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nss_ldap
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 254172
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-24 16:01 UTC by Simo Sorce
Modified: 2008-01-02 22:06 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 257-3.fc7
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-01-02 22:06:18 UTC
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Patch to correctly format URI from SRV record (500 bytes, patch)
2008-01-02 20:35 UTC, Brandon Ewing 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Simo Sorce 2007-08-24 16:01:13 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
254-2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure nsswitch.conf to use ldap and a DNS record of the form
_ldap._tcp.domain.name to point to the ldap server
2. omit uri and hostname from /etc/ldap.conf
3. getent passwd
  
Actual results:
the ldap server is not contacted and no entries show up

Expected results:
the ldap server is queried and entries show up
Comment 1 Brandon Ewing 2008-01-02 20:35:36 UTC 
Created attachment 290677 [details]
Patch to correctly format URI from SRV record

I've been using this for a while now, appears to work correctly.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2008-01-02 22:06:18 UTC 
This should be fixed in 257-3, which has been pushed as an update.  Please
reopen if you find that this is not the case.
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