Re: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server

[Jan-Piet Mens <jpm@Retail-SC.com>]

You've probably configured your OpenLDAP slapd to use tcp_wrappers, and the
default setup is denying connections from localhost. Try modifying
/etc/hosts.allow or whatever the file is called, to enable slapd access from 
localhost.

	-JP


On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Matthew Harrell wrote:

> 
> Hi,
>         I'm just starting out with setting up LDAP and I'm having a strange
> problem.  When I run a search I get
> 
>         {54}: ldapsearch -s base -b cn=monitor 'objectclass=*'
>         ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> 
> and the slapd logs report
> 
>         slapd[23931]: fd=6 connection from unknown (127.0.0.1) denied.
> 
> What's up?  I didn't see anything like this in the list archive so I figure
> I'm doing something really stupid.  127.0.0.1 is in my hosts file and DNS
> records so it shouldn't be unknown.  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Here's my slapd.conf file:
> 
> 
> #
> # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options.
> # This file should NOT be world readable.
> #
> include		/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf
> include		/etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf
> schemacheck	off
> referral	ldap://root.openldap.org/
> 
> loglevel        8
> pidfile		/var/run/slapd.pid
> argsfile	/var/run/slapd.args
> 
> #######################################################################
> # ldbm database definitions
> #######################################################################
> 
> #suffix		"o=My Organization Name, c=US"
> #rootdn		"cn=Manager, o=My Organization Name, c=US"
> # cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should
> # be avoid.  See slapd.conf(5) for details.
> 
> database	ldbm
> suffix		"o=bittwiddlers, c=com"
> directory	/var/lib/ldap
> rootdn		"cn=mharrell, o=bittwiddlers, c=com"
> rootpw		secret
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Matthew Harrell                          If at first you don't succeed,
>   Bit Twiddlers, Inc.                       try management.
>   mharrell@bittwiddlers.com
> 
>