Bug 477145 - ldapsearch and nss_ldap fail to find LDAP users
Summary: ldapsearch and nss_ldap fail to find LDAP users
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nss_ldap
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 459756 505105
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-19 11:53 UTC by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Modified: 2012-12-16 17:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:20:06 UTC
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2008-12-19 11:53:36 UTC
Description of problem:
ldapsearch and anything using nss_ldap can't contact LDAP server if it's specified by DNS name which resolves to an IPv4 address. If I specify the ldap server's IP in /etc/hosts, it starts working. According to tcpdump on port 53, no DNS requests are sent to resolve the ldap server's address.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.9-3
nss_ldap-261-4.fc10
openldap-clients-2.4.12-1.fc10

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up ldaps:// server somewhere on the local network
2. set up the local machine to authenticate against it (to test /bin/id)
3. ldapsearch -d 255 -H ldaps://ldap1.icm.edu.pl/ -b dc=icm,dc=edu,dc=pl -x 'uid=rathann'
4. id rathann
  
Actual results:
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldaps://ldap1.icm.edu.pl/)
ldap_create
ldap_url_parse_ext(ldaps://ldap1.icm.edu.pl:636/??base)
ldap_sasl_bind
ldap_send_initial_request
ldap_new_connection 1 1 0
ldap_int_open_connection
ldap_connect_to_host: TCP ldap1.icm.edu.pl:636
ldap_connect_to_host: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known
ldap_err2string
ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
# id rathann
id: rathann: No such user

Expected results:
The result of the query.
# id rathann
uid=5242(rathann) ...

Additional info:
This could be related to bug 459756, because other applications are still complaining about failed DNS lookups:
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: host name not found: 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: couldn't resolve `0.fedora.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: host name not found: 1.fedora.pool.ntp.org
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: couldn't resolve `1.fedora.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: host name not found: 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org
Dec 19 12:49:41 blader ntpd_initres[4246]: couldn't resolve `2.fedora.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2009-01-27 21:19:04 UTC
What does your "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf look like?  If you're attempting to use the directory service for that, is a method which can provide resolution for the directory server's hostname listed before it?

Comment 2 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2009-01-28 20:22:11 UTC
% grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:      files dns
%

Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2009-10-15 09:40:11 UTC
It's working in current rawhide, so it must've been fixed somewhere along the way. I'll try to verify this in F11 and F10 when I get a chance.

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