ldap: ping does not return

[Herbert Gasiorowski]

> 
> I just added a reply in Bugzilla to your report of this.
> 
> Here, I can get nscd to work with "host: files ldap dns", but I had to 
> restart it after I changed nsswitch.conf.
> 
> 

Ok: I finally got it (hopefully):

I missed that some libldap does a reverse lookup on the
ip number in ldap.conf (or the like).

So I need to add the ldap-server in /etc/hosts avoiding
the endless loop (and nscd so ping will not stop in futex).

-- 
mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/