Re: OpenLDAP and DNS SRV records

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

----- "Gavin Henry" <gavin.henry@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm confused. You said it's already in the libs ando?

I said this feature (DN with no host/port resorting to DNS SRV) is implemented using calls that are in the libs since 2000 or so.  I understand that Buchan would like the libs to have this feature built-in (into ldap_initialize(3), I guess).

p.

> 
> On 30/12/2008, Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
> > Buchan Milne wrote:
> >
> >>> The man page says: "if no host/port is specified, but a DN is...".
>  It
> >>> means that:
> >>>
> >>> - you must provide a(n RFC 45) LDAP URI
> >>>
> >>> - it must contain no host/port
> >>>
> >>> - it must contain a DN
> >>>
> >>> yours is not a LDAP URI.  Try something like
> "ldap:///dc=domain,dc=com";.
> >>>
> >>> The 2.4 client tools have been modified to support this feature.
> >>> However, they use libldap to perform this.  See
> clients/tools/common.c,
> >>> the calls to ldap_dn2domain(3) and ldap_domain2hostlist(3) calls
> (I
> >>> don't think they actually have a man page...).  Those calls are
> >>> available in libldap since 2.0, I believe, in 2000.
> >>
> >> Is there a reason this isn't implemented in the library? As far as
> I
> >> understand, at present only the OpenLDAP utilities will work with
> this
> >> URI,
> >> while if it were implemented in the library, other LDAP clients
> using the
> >> OpenLDAP library which don't already support a similar feature
> (sudo is
> >> the
> >> best example I can think of in this case, though various other
> desktop
> >> software could benefit) would get it for free?
> >
> > Because.  If this is considered useful, we can move it to the
> library,
> > of course.  Please file an ITS.
> >
> > p.
> >
> >
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