At 12:12 PM 10/18/2006, hyc@symas.com wrote:

rtsai@ironport.com wrote:

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Full_Name: Robert Tsai Version: 2.3.27 OS: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/openldap-2.3.27-bindaddr.patch.txt Submission from: (NULL) (63.251.108.100)

This is a patch that provides a mechanism to bind the LDAP client connection to a desired address via ldap_set_option(..., LDAP_OPT_BINDADDR). This call saves some state which is then used by ldap_int_prepare_socket to bind the socket before opening a connection to the LDAP server.

I can't think of any good reason to need such a feature. Can you give some background on why anyone would use it?

I can see a few cases where a client might want to bind the local address, for instance, to ensure use of a particular network interface.

However, my concern with patch is one of the approach taken to accommodate this binding. I'm thinking it might be better to provide an alternative to ldap_initialize(3) which takes a connected descriptor instead of a URL. Then calling program can do whatever it pleases before its used by slapd(8).

-- Kurt