ldap and hosts
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Apr 11 14:49:14 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 08:36 -0600, Andrew wrote:
> 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.
----
how about ldapsearch?
does
ldapsearch -x -h localhost -D 'YOUR_ROOTBIND_DN' -W '(ou=Host*)'
return anything useful?
Craig
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