[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap and ldap_result() failed.

[Tan Shao Yi]

Hi,

Sorry, I forgot to mention I am on 1.0.0 on a Solaris 10 box connecting 
to a OpenLDAP server on localhost. :)

Just cannot figure out why it is printing these messages though everything 
seems to be working fine; users are connecting to download e-mails. And 
when I logged slapd connections, slapd does pick up those connections on 
localhost.

Cheers.

On Tue, 1 May 2007, funkypunky drunky wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I see this notifications in my logs too. But everything is working fine.
> Yesterday in my logs
> May  1 00:56:57 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 01:57:05 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 02:57:14 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 04:01:22 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 05:01:30 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 06:01:38 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 07:01:47 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> May  1 08:01:55 email4 dovecot: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
> I have seen these lines. I hope everything is ok.
> I am using postfix with dovecot 1.31. I am using dovecot lda and quota
> plugins.
> IS there any command about it?
> Thanx and best regards
>
>
> 2007/4/30, Tan Shao Yi <tansy at pacific.net.sg>:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have configured dovecot for auth_bind against an LDAP server on the
>> localhost and I'm seeing the following error in my dovecot logs:
>> 
>> dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:18 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
>> Can't contact LDAP server
>> dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:27 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
>> Can't contact LDAP server
>> ... and so on ...
>> 
>> When I turned on LDAP logging, this was what slapd logged.
>> 
>> Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 848112 local4.debug] conn=3555
>> fd=11 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:47299 (IP=0.0.0.0:389)
>> Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 215403 local4.debug] conn=3555
>> op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" method=128
>> Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 600343 local4.debug] conn=3555
>> op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0
>> Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 588225 local4.debug] conn=3555
>> op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text=
>> 
>> May I know what is causing Dovecot to log that it Can't contact the LDAP
>> server when slapd does see the incoming connection.
>> 
>> Strangely, everything is working fine, my users are able to authenticate
>> against LDAP; the UIDs, home directories, quotas etc are all picked up
>> correctly. It's just the annoying auth(default) errors that keep popping
>> up every 20 seconds or so.
>> 
>> Thanking in advance if anyone has any ideas.
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> 
>