further troubleshooting on my part with ldapsearch/debugging turned up, gave me the following:

TLS: certdb config: configDir='/etc/openldap/certs' tokenDescription='ldap(0)' certPrefix=" keyPrefix=" flags=readOnly

TLS: using moznss security dire /etc/openldap/certs prefix

TLS: error: tlsm_PR_Recv returned 0 - error 21:Is a directory

TLS: error: connect - force handshake failure: errono 21 - moznss error -5938

TLS: can't connect: TLS error -5938:Encountered end of file

ldap_err2string

ldap_sasl_bin(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1)

searches I;ve done on this error seem to point to certificate/openSSL problems.

Anyone run into this before?

On Friday, January 24, 2014 5:39 PM, c chupela <cnctema68@yahoo.com> wrote:

After having some packet traces done, what was revealed is that from a windows client running the softerra ldap browser, we could see the connection be established between client and server (syn, ack synack) client requests sending of data, and server resets/closes the connection, never sending any data, as I also saw with attempting to telnet to port 636 - connection is closed by remote host.

Regarding the question of is TLS enabled, if I understand the doc correctly, the answer is yes. With respect to the TLS_REQCERT never statement, I believe it was set this way because this was only intended to be a testing server.

contents of ldap.conf:

# LDAP Defaults

# See ldap.conf(5) for details

# This file should be world readable but not world writable.

BASE dc=plandb,dc=stuff,dc=acme,dc=com

URI ldap://plandb-qa.stuff.acme.com ldaps://plandb-qa.stuff.acme.com:636

#SIZELIMIT 12

#TIMELIMIT 15

#DEREF never

TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/certs

TLS_REQCERT never

currently running slapd process:

1 S ldap 5603 1 0 80 0 - 111440 futex_ Jan21 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// ldapi:/// -u ldap

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:25 AM, Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

>>> c chupela <cnctema68@yahoo.com> schrieb am 22.01.2014 um 18:43 in Nachricht
<1390412584.5499.YahooMailNeo@web140101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>:
> I've been tasked with figuring out why a redhat 6.4 server w/openldap v2.4.23
> is not accessible.
> This server is a test server. I have a production server that is working
> properly, and I've gone thru and compared config files, etc, but haven't
> found any differences.
>
> I'm a newbie with this, so my understanding is still somewhat limited.
> Here's what I've done or checked so far:
>
> - iptables is not running
> - if I run netstat, I can see port 389/port 636 in listening state:
>
> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:636 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 5603/slapd
> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:389 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 5603/slapd
> tcp 0 0 :::636 :::*
> LISTEN 5603/slapd
> tcp 0 0 :::389 :::*
> LISTEN 5603/slapd
>
> I can telnet to port 389 on this server from another server, but not to port
> 636 - putty will throw back an immediate 'connection closed by remote host'
> message.
>
> I'm not seeing any slapd related messages in /var/log/messages.
>
> What else can I check on here?

Syslog

>
> Thanks
> Chris