Re: [nssldap] nss ldap under RHEL 5 does first connects configured ldap server and than does dns lookup and tries to connect random ldap servers

[Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse [at] inria.fr>]

Thomas Glanzmann a écrit :
> When I do a ,,getent passwd'' it shows the local users, the directory
> users, and than hangs. By sniffing the connection, I see that connectes
> to 157.163.212.208 does, search, gets the answer and even lists the
> users. But than it does a DNS lookup for
>
>         DomainDnsZones.ww004.glanzmann.net
>
> And tries to connect these servers which results into a hang because there is a
> firewall in place which makes it impossible to connect the machines. Is there a
> way to get rid of this annoying behaviour using a configuration option or do I
> have to rebuild nss ldap?
Do you have ldap listed for 'hosts' entry in nsswitch.conf, by any chance ?
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