Philippe.eychart@informatique.gov.pf wrote:

The "tool_conn_setup" function (in common.c) autorise the Url synthaxe "ldap:///dc=my%2cdc=domaine" which produce a SRV request to find the best server to request (not yet according the rfc 2782 - I've made dnssrv.c patch to implement priorities and I try to implement weight before submit this work). So, the client tools - ldapsearch, ldapadd, ... permit this syntaxe (via "ldap_dn2domain" and "ldap_domain2hostlist" functions).

This was done to allow testing client-side the DNS SRV feature.

Unfortunately, ldap_initialize() doesn't use these functions (but only ldap_url_parselist_ext()) and doesn't allow this synthaxe. So, other packages (like SAMBA) doesn't enjoy this capability : "passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap:///dc=my%2cdc=domain" according a SRV definition "_ldap._tcp.my.domain. IN SRV ..."

Is there any reason for that ? Can we envisage to increase this possibility ?

None that I'm aware of. Feel free to move that code from tools to libldap. Patches are welcome, as usual.

p.

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