Re: (ITS#6565) DNSSRV referrals: chaining without search base

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

> Hello,
>
>> Hi.  I don't have time to work at this right now, but I think the
>> solution
>> would be to modify slapo-chain(5) so that when a referral's DN is "" and
>> the DN in the original request is not "", to use that DN instead.  The
>> original request DN can be found in op->o_req_dn.
>
>    we tested the following - with success:
>
> Just replace in servers/slapd/back-ldap/chain.c, function
> ldap_chain_op(), line 485-486:
>
> 		op->o_req_dn = pdn;
> 		op->o_req_ndn = ndn;
>
> With:
>
>         if (pdn.bv_len > 0) {
>             op->o_req_dn = pdn;
>         }
>         if (ndn.bv_len > 0) {
>             op->o_req_ndn = ndn;
>         }
>
> It would be great if this came into the official code.

This issue was fixed consistently in HEAD code more than a month ago,
please test it and report, so in case it works the ITS can be closed and
the fix released.

Thanks, p.