[Freeipa-users] fail joining an ubuntu 12.04 to a freeipa server with ipa-client-install

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 13:16 +0200, pasqual milvaques wrote:

> root : DEBUG Init ldap with: ldap://freeipaserver.linux.gva.es:389
> root : ERROR LDAP Error: Connect error: A TLS packet with unexpected 
> length was received.
> Failed to verify that freeipaserver.linux.gva.es is an IPA Server.
> This may mean that the remote server is not up or is not reachable
> due to network or firewall settings.


This error about the unexpected length can occur if your /etc/hosts file
lists the short version of the hostname before the long version, e.g.

192.168.0.1 freeipaserver freeipaserver.linux.gva.es

You want it to be:

192.168.0.1 freeipaserver.linux.gva.es freeipaserver
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