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Hi All,

I saw in the archives someone complaining about Netscape returning an
error similar to the one I'm getting now, but no answer, so I hope it
isn't a FAQ:

"Failed to search 'University of Pretoria' due to LDAP error 'unknown
error' (0xFFFFFFFF)"

Sometimes data is still returned, sometimes not, and a simple repeat of
the search normally returns the data without error.

On the slapd server's log, for example, two repeated searches, one giving
the error, the other not, I see:

Oct 19 10:55:23 postino slapd[20935]: conn=0 fd=5 connection from
aldous.up.ac.za (137.215.100.31) accepted. 
Oct 19 10:55:23 postino slapd[20935]: conn=0 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 
Oct 19 10:55:23 postino slapd[20935]: conn=0 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97
nentries=0 
Oct 19 10:55:24 postino slapd[20935]: conn=0 op=1 SRCH base="o=University
of Pretoria,c=za" scope=2 filter="(cn=*BARNARD*)" 
Oct 19 10:55:24 postino slapd[20935]: conn=0 op=1 fd=5 closed errno=32 
Oct 19 10:55:28 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 fd=5 connection from
aldous.up.ac.za (137.215.100.31) accepted. 
Oct 19 10:55:28 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 
Oct 19 10:55:28 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97
nentries=0 
Oct 19 10:55:28 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=1 SRCH base="o=University
of Pretoria,c=za" scope=2 filter="(cn=*BARNARD*)" 
Oct 19 10:55:30 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101
nentries=4 
Oct 19 10:55:30 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=2 UNBIND 
Oct 19 10:55:30 postino slapd[20935]: conn=1 op=2 fd=5 closed errno=0 

This is OpenLDAP 1.0; I saw exactly the same thing with the UMich 3.3
server.

Running under Linux 2.0.33; installed originally from Slackware 3.3.

Interestingly, I don't see the same thing with Pine's LDAP interface.

Any ideas ?

-- Charl
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Charl J. Barnard                 |            NW II Building Room 5-1.3
charl@up.ac.za                   |            University of Pretoria
Tel.: +27-12-420-2444            |            Pretoria, South Africa
   "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion."