enabling the ldap keyserver plugin on HP-UX

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Sep 6 13:44:02 CEST 2002


On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:44:52PM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> On 020831, at 10:36:26, David Shaw wrote
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:40:57AM -0700, David Ellement wrote:
> > > However, when I try specifying an ldap keyserver to pull a key, I
> > > get the error message:
> > > 
> > >     gpgkeys: internal LDAP bind error: Can't contact LDAP server
> > > 
> > > Is this due to a bad compile? an inactive keyserver? blocking by our
> > > firewall? (I am able to pull from hkp keyservers).
> > 
> > It could be any of the above.  Try these two LDAP keyservers:
> > 
> >   ldap://64.94.85.200
> > and
> >   ldap://pgp.surfnet.nl:11370
> 
> I get the same error message with these.  I am able to telnet to both,
> and I get my key data back from pgp.surfnet.nl if I use hkp.  So I
> assume I have a bad compile of one of openssl, openldap, or
> gpgkeys_ldap.

Intesting.  Let's check OpenLDAP sanity.  What happens if you do:

  ldapsearch -h 64.94.85.200 -x -P2 '(pgpkeyid=394D0EC8)'

(ldapsearch comes with OpenLDAP)

David

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