ldap and hosts

[Andrew]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:21 -0600, Andrew wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:17 -0600, Andrew wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I have a ldap server running on another distro and I use it for a lot of 
>>>> different things (such as users, passwords, and hosts) and it all works 
>>>> fine on that distro.  I'm also trying to get all of this to work in FC5 
>>>> and so far I have gotten users and passwords to work but the hosts is 
>>>> giving me problems.  If I type getent hosts I see the complete list of 
>>>> hosts as it should be but if I try to ping one of the hosts it just 
>>>> hangs.  If I try to ping the ip address everything works fine.  I should 
>>>> also note that I can't ping domain's either (such as yahoo.com) again it 
>>>> just hangs but if I use a browser I can browse to them.  On another 
>>>> note, when I type getent hosts in the ldap console i can see the query 
>>>> but when I try to ping a single domain I see nothing in the ldap 
>>>> console, not even an attempt.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> you need to confirm padl tools setup...
>>>
>>> what's output of ???
>>>
>>> grep host /etc/nsswitch
>>>
>>> grep host /etc/ldap.conf
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> padl tools setup?
>>
>> the hosts line from my ldap config
>> nss_base_hosts  ou=Hosts,dc=example,dc=org
>>     
> ----
> wouldn't it make sense to make the above line something that could
> possibly be meaningful from ldap?
>
> how about ldapsearch?  can you get hosts by querying via ldapsearch?
>
> if so, the answer to what you need in the line above should be obvious.
>
>   
>> from nsswitch.conf
>> #hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
>> hosts:      files dns ldap
>>
>> Note: ldap was before dns but by moving it back i was able to ping 
>> yahoo.com.  But I still can't ping hosts in the hosts list.
>>     
> ----
> probably should be running local dns for this but ldap.conf above is the
> reason why it's not working for you.
>
> Craig
>
>   
Actually I was thinking about putting up a DNS server, I'm just not 
excited about having another service to run and maintain but.  The Hosts 
line is actually not what i put i just didn't want to post my domain 
name here however you could probably tell by my email.  But the dn is 
correct i a sure you.


-Andrew