On Thursday, 12 July 2007, Kelly Choo wrote:
Hi
I'm running openldap-2.3.35 on HPUX 11.11 and I can ldapsearch localhost
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but not when I use the actual server name chief.math.uvic.ca
ldapsearch -H ldap://chief.math.uvic.ca/ -b dc=math,dc=uvic,dc=ca -x
I get ldap_result: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
The same happens if I use the IP address instead of chief.math.uvic.ca
Can you telnet to port 389 on this IP/hostname? If you can't, there can be at least two reasons for this:
1)Is slapd listening on the IP address for chief.math.uvic.ca (under Linux, 'netstat -plnt|grep :389' would help you check, the command/options may be different - or not available - under HPUX)?
If slapd isn't listening on the relevant IP address, check the arguments that slapd was started with, e.g. I would expect this behaviour if slapd had been started with something like '-h ldap:///localhost' or '-h ldap:///127.0.0.1'
2)Is there a host-level firewall in place (I guess this is unlikely under HPUX, but still worth asking)?
Regards, Buchan