Full_Name: Philippe EYCHART Version: 2.4.13 OS: slack12 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (123.50.82.141)

Hi, 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).

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 ? Regards