LDAP: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:11, 2 March 2006

An overview of LDAP

LDAP initialization fails
- Failure to resolve the LDAP server
- Failure to connect to the LDAP server

LDAP uses DNS to resolve the ldap host, even if it's localhost

To verify that you're able to resolve the ldap host:

host ldap-hostname

Make sure you understand DNS.

If resolution succeeds, the initialization may fail because the LDAP server failed to start

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 ** Failure to connect to the [[LDAP]] server
-=== [[LDAP]] and [[DNS]] ===
+== [[LDAP]] and [[DNS]] ==
-[[DNS]] information can be found here.
+[[LDAP]] uses [[DNS]] to resolve the ldap host, ''even if it's localhost''
-[[LDAP]] uses [[DNS]] to resolve the ldap host, ''even if it's the local host''
+To verify that you're able to resolve the ldap host:
+:<tt>host ''ldap-hostname''</tt>
+Make sure you understand [[DNS]].
+== Connecting to an external LDAP server with SSL ==
-To verify that you're able to resolve the ldap host:
-:<tt>host ''ldap hostname''</tt>
-=== Failure to Connect ===
+== Failure to Connect ==
 If resolution succeeds, the initialization may fail because the [[LDAP]] server failed to start