Hi mattnovi, On Saturday, 19. January 2008, Graham Barr wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It seems that Net::LDAP is not correctly using the loopback interface > > when being used to connect to an LDAP server on the same machine. > > This cases SElinux to think it is attempting to make an off-box > > connection. SELinux has restrictions on web applications doing this by > > default. > > > > Symptom: When attemtping ot login BugZilla reports that the > > connection to the ldap server "ldap://localhost"; failed yet the server > > is running and other clients (even a test Perl script I wrote) works > > fine. The Net::LDAP->new call is simply failing and causing this. > > Net::LDAP will be using IO::Socket::INET with host "localhost" and > port 389 > > What do you see when you run > > telnet localhost 389 > > Do you get connection refused ? > > > Other socket-based applications such as MySQL seem to work. > > MySQL will use UNIX domain sockets instead of INET domain sockets if > the hostname is localhost
If your LDAP server supports LDAPI connections, i.e. LDAP over Unix domain sockets (as e.g. OpenLDAP does), you may use ldapi:// style URLs. See Net::LDAP(3pm) for details. Hope this helps Peter -- Peter Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
