Since the ITS#4707 patch was not merged into 2.4 and is subject to additional modification to handle a list of local addresses, perhaps it makes sense to leverage from what was done in 2.3 and write a new patch for 2.4 (i.e. no merge)?

Regarding multiple local IP addresses, I can think of a scenario where the desired local network interface has an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address, then the one which has the same address family as the server's is chosen at the time of socket binding, but how to match a client IP address with a server host address when there are multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 local addresses?

Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Le Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 5:17 PM To: 'Howard Chu' <hyc(a)symas.com&gt;; Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah(a)symas.com&gt;; &#39;openldap-devel(a)openldap.org&#39; <openldap-devel(a)openldap.org&gt; Subject: RE: ITS#8654 - Option for LDAP client to bind to a local address From what I can see, ldap_init_fd() only allows the setting of UDP/TCP/IPC protocol type and server's URI. Will the ITS#4707 patch (ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/openldap-2.3.27-bindaddr.patch.txt) be merged into 2.4? And since this patch only handles one IP address, further change will be necessary to support a list of IP addresses. Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@symas.com] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 2:49 PM To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah(a)symas.com&gt;; Daniel Le <daniel.le(a)exfo.com&gt;; &#39;openldap-devel(a)openldap.org&#39; <openldap-devel(a)openldap.org&gt; Subject: Re: ITS#8654 - Option for LDAP client to bind to a local address Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Monday, May 22, 2017 7:28 PM +0000 Daniel Le > <daniel.le(a)exfo.com&gt; > wrote: > >> I tumbled into the following ITS#4707 thread: >> Patch: option to bind client socket to an address >> https://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200610/threads.html#000 >> 4 >> 7 >> >> Wasn't this patch integrated into OpenLDAP 2.3.X? I couldn't see it >> in the 2.4.44 code base. > > The notes say it was added for 2.4, but that apparently is incorrect. > > "new API added in HEAD/RE24" The notes say *a* new API was added to 2.4, not necessarily *this* one. And that is true, we added ldap_init_fd() which lets the caller setup their socket any way they please. commit 1f635b8bcfaaac666005a88a5620e9798c9565e1 -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/