RE: ldap_bind fails in vpn tunnel

[Christopher Barry <christopher.barry@qlogic.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shankhadeep Sen [mailto:shanks.iit@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:25 PM
> To: Christopher Barry
> Subject: Re: ldap_bind fails in vpn tunnel
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
>                        Thanks for your email.It seems that 
> without TLS , the search works first but next when I initiate 
> a TLS session, the ldap api says "SERVER DOWN".I must mention 
> that the bandwidth is very low in that VPN tunnel and there 
> is only one route.
> 
> Now I used tcpdump to check the packets on port 389 , it 
> seems that there are a lot of packets being exchanged.My 
> guess is that because of the low b/w even if one packet gets 
> dropped because of router overflow, the SSL handshake will be 
> terminated.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sankhadip
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Christopher Barry 
> <christopher.barry@qlogic.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From:
> 	> openldap-technical-bounces+christopher.barry=qlogic.com@openld
> 	> ap.org
> 	> [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces+christopher.barry 
> <mailto:openldap-technical-bounces%2Bchristopher.barry> =qlogic.co
> 	> m@openldap.org] On Behalf Of Sankhadip Sengupta
> 	> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:34 AM
> 	> To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
> 	> Subject: ldap_bind fails in vpn tunnel
> 	>
> 	> Hi,
> 	>
> 	>     In a  VPN tunnel, using TLS, ldap_search works but the
> 	> ldap_bind fails with error :Can't contact LDAP server(-1).
> 	>
> 	> Can any one help me? I am using the openldap sdk.
> 	>
> 	> Thanks,
> 	>
> 	> Sankhadip
> 	>
> 	
> 	
> 	You might try putting the LDAP server's name and IP 
> address in the hosts file of the client.
> 	
> 	-C 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Is this link helpful to you?
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200201/msg00625.html