Re: Failed to bind error

[Shelley Waltz <shwaltz@cabm.rutgers.edu>]

It turns out that the RedHat rpms enable tcpwrappers
by default.  One needs to add slapd:ALL to the 
/etc/hosts.allow to enable access to all networks.

Shelley Waltz

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Shelley Waltz wrote:

> I am running openldap-1.2.9-6 on RH6.2.  When accessing
> the database from within our network, all is well and
> with Mac, Windows, Linux, SGI, and SUn netscape clients,
> binding to the server and executing lookups is fine.
> 
> Outside the network, however, on all netscape client
> platforms, we receive a "Failed to bind to 'CABM' due to
> LDAP error 'Unknown error' (0xFFFFFFFF).
> 
> Any ideas on why this fails - what can I check/test?
> thanks,
> Shelley Waltz
> 
> Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM)
> 679 Hoes Lane
> Piscataway, NJ 08854-5638
> phone: (732) 235-3346
> 
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