Re: Problem with connecting to ldaps

[Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> At 01:53 AM 6/6/2001, Grzegorz Filip wrote:
> >
> >ldapsearch -H <ldaps:///>ldaps:/// -x -b"" objectclass=*
> >I get message "can't contact LDAP server"
> >What could caused that problem ?
>
> Certificate checks.  The name used by the client to locate
> the server needs to be the name in the certificate returned
> by the server.

Thank you!  I have been struggling with this all afternoon.  I am
testing on the same machine that's running slapd, but my cert was
created with the fully-qualified host name.  I created a "localhost"
cert and both SSL and TLS simple/anonymous binds are working now.

Allan