Hi again gurus,
I'm in the process of converting our organization from NIS to LDAP. I
have an LDAP server set up and working, i.e.
1) ldapsearch -x returns stuff
2) id <username> returns the correct information
And maybe I misunderstand, but it's my understanding that I can use LDAP
to also set up a list of known hosts -- i.e. a replacement for the NIS
hosts.byname map. So I:
1) Set up a ou=hosts,dc=nimbios,dc=org entry in the database
2) In /etc/ldap/ldap.conf, I set: nss_base_hosts ou=hosts,dc=nimbios,dc=org
2) In /etc/nsswitch.conf I set: hosts: files ldap dns
But when I do so the networking freezes on the client until I remove the
"ldap" from the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Do I misunderstand how this is supposed to work? I would have thought
that if the hosts lookup in LDAP failed then it would fall through to DNS.
Thanks for your help,
Michael
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