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Re: Can only ldapsearch localhost but NOT the actual server name



On Thursday, 12 July 2007, Kelly Choo wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running openldap-2.3.35 on HPUX 11.11
> and I can ldapsearch localhost

[...] 

> but not when I use the actual server name chief.math.uvic.ca
>
> ldapsearch -H ldap://chief.math.uvic.ca/ -b dc=math,dc=uvic,dc=ca -x
>
> I get
> ldap_result: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
>
> The same happens if I use the IP address instead of chief.math.uvic.ca

Can you telnet to port 389 on this IP/hostname? If you can't, there can be at 
least two reasons for this:

1)Is slapd listening on the IP address for chief.math.uvic.ca (under 
Linux, 'netstat -plnt|grep :389' would help you check, the command/options 
may be different - or not available - under HPUX)? 

If slapd isn't listening on the relevant IP address, check the arguments that 
slapd was started with, e.g. I would expect this behaviour if slapd had been 
started with something like '-h ldap:///localhost' or '-h ldap:///127.0.0.1'

2)Is there a host-level firewall in place (I guess this is unlikely under 
HPUX, but still worth asking)?

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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