Re: IRIX resolver and OpenLDAP

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 10:37 AM 2/10/00 +0000, Chris Reece wrote:
>I have three test servers (OpenLDAP 1.2.9) running on various flavours of
>Solaris box.  I've an A record in the DNS for ldap.york.ac.uk with three
>IP addresses.  We have a number of IRIX 6.5.6 clients, so I've also
>compiled for IRIX.  I have a problem using ldapsearch from the IRIX
>clients:
>
>% ldapsearch -v -h ldap.york.ac.uk 'cn=car7'
>ldap_init( ldap.york.ac.uk, 389 )
>
>This just hangs until I interrupt it.

If you wait long enough for it to try all addresses it would
likely return an appropraite error message.

Try "telnet ldap.york.ac.uk ldap".   Even though LDAP is not
textual... but you can use this to test your TCP/IP configuration.
(This is a better test than a ping for this sort of thing).

	Kurt