[email protected] wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Full_Name: Jonathan Clarke >> Version: RE24 >> OS: irrelevant >> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ >> Submission from: (NULL) (213.41.243.192) >> >> >> Hi, >> >> When adding a syncrepl config, the function add_syncrepl performs a "check if >> URL points to current server". This check is based on an exact match between >> the >> provider parameter from the syncrepl config line, and the URIs given to >> slapd on >> startup. >> >> If this doesn't match when it should, the database is marked as a shadow, and >> all following updates fail with "shadow context; no update refs". This is >> quite >> a pain when it happens on cn=config :) >> >> There are multiple cases when this happens: >> 1) If no specific URI was specified on launch (no -h option) >> 2) Port numbers are explicitly specified or not (":389") >> 3) Trailing slash (for example "ldap://1.2.3.4"; != "ldap://1.2.3.4/";) >> 4) IP is specified rather than DNS name ("ldap://localhost"; != >> "ldap://127.0.0.1";) >> >> I saw the comment in the code that clarifies this behaviour. However, it's a >> surprising behaviour, and I think there is code to parse this kind of thing >> in >> the serverID detection now. Maybe it could be reused?
Oops, never mind. I was thinking of the serverID code, and you're talking about the syncrepl code. I'll have to think a bit about why the two aren't behaving identically; probably they should both use the same code. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
