On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 08:36 -0600, Andrew wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:21 -0600, Andrew wrote: > > > >> Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:17 -0600, Andrew wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hello everyone, > >>>> > >>>> I have a ldap server running on another distro and I use it for a lot of > >>>> different things (such as users, passwords, and hosts) and it all works > >>>> fine on that distro. I'm also trying to get all of this to work in FC5 > >>>> and so far I have gotten users and passwords to work but the hosts is > >>>> giving me problems. If I type getent hosts I see the complete list of > >>>> hosts as it should be but if I try to ping one of the hosts it just > >>>> hangs. If I try to ping the ip address everything works fine. I should > >>>> also note that I can't ping domain's either (such as yahoo.com) again it > >>>> just hangs but if I use a browser I can browse to them. On another > >>>> note, when I type getent hosts in the ldap console i can see the query > >>>> but when I try to ping a single domain I see nothing in the ldap > >>>> console, not even an attempt. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> ---- > >>> you need to confirm padl tools setup... > >>> > >>> what's output of ??? > >>> > >>> grep host /etc/nsswitch > >>> > >>> grep host /etc/ldap.conf > >>> > >>> Craig > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> padl tools setup? > >> > >> the hosts line from my ldap config > >> nss_base_hosts ou=Hosts,dc=example,dc=org > >> > > ---- > > wouldn't it make sense to make the above line something that could > > possibly be meaningful from ldap? > > > > how about ldapsearch? can you get hosts by querying via ldapsearch? > > > > if so, the answer to what you need in the line above should be obvious. > > > > > >> from nsswitch.conf > >> #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > >> hosts: files dns ldap > >> > >> Note: ldap was before dns but by moving it back i was able to ping > >> yahoo.com. But I still can't ping hosts in the hosts list. > >> > > ---- > > probably should be running local dns for this but ldap.conf above is the > > reason why it's not working for you. > > > > Craig > > > > > Actually I was thinking about putting up a DNS server, I'm just not > excited about having another service to run and maintain but. The Hosts > line is actually not what i put i just didn't want to post my domain > name here however you could probably tell by my email. But the dn is > correct i a sure you. ---- how about ldapsearch? does ldapsearch -x -h localhost -D 'YOUR_ROOTBIND_DN' -W '(ou=Host*)' return anything useful? Craig
