Re: how to do a ldapsearch from a telnet session

From: Carlos <miotromailcarlos_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <56847d43-bc29-46fc-88dc-b37967657b52_at_29g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>

On Apr 26, 9:47 am, Shakespeare <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Op 21-4-2010 20:39, kat schreef:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to check the status of our OID (10.1.0.4) server running
> > OEL 4 from another OEL server by passing a string (cn=mytestdb) and
> > I'm hoping to receive an expected string back but I'm getting
> > connection closed by foreign host. Is there a configuration change
> > that has to be made to open up the access?
>
> > $>  telnet oidserver 389
> > Trying 192.168.2.34...
> > Connected to oidserver.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > ldapsearch "cn=mytestdb"
> > Connection to oidserver closed by foreign host.
> > $>
>
> > I'm able to successfully run ldapsearch "cn=mytestdb" directly on the
> > oidserver.
>
> > Can someone help?
>
> > thanks.
>
> Your OID server is not running telnet on port 389, that is the port for
> LDAP. Telnet should normally be running on the normal telnet port.
>
> But you  don't need telnet at all to perform an ldap search on another
> server. You can use ldapsearch on the second server with the target host
> and target port as parameters, like:
> ldapsearch -h <targethost> -p <targetport> -D cn=orcladmin -w <password>
> -b <basedn> (cn=mytestdb)
>
> Shakespeare

I respectfully disagree with the term 'normal telnet port' (which I presume Shakespeare assumes 23 ).

Telnet establishes connection between any different ports (as per RFC 854), and only if intended as remote terminal access this protocol is assigned server port 23.

Cheers.

Carlos. Received on Mon Apr 26 2010 - 04:22:07 CDT