Full_Name: Russ Allbery Version: 2.3.35 OS: Debian URL: Submission from: (NULL) (171.66.157.14)

A user of the Debian OpenLDAP package requested support in the command-line utilities for using SRV entries to locate the local LDAP server. My understanding of the suggestion is that if one didn't specify -h or -H, a SRV record lookup would be tried before falling back to localhost. (You may not want to change the default behavior, though, and add another switch.)

For the full suggestion, see:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221173

It looks like much of the necessary code is already there in libldap, and looking at the libldap code, you could also intuit the correct server based on any search base provided.