nss_ldap and ping not working

[Herbert Gasiorowski]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Spoke too soon anyhow...  After writing that message, some other 
> programs started segfaulting.  I couldn't log in as any user, including 
> root, on the console any more, couldn't "su", couldn't "sudo", etc. 
> There certainly seems to be a problem with using ldap as an NSS source 
> for the hosts database.

Did you use the service "dns" before "ldap": ldap itself tries to resolve
some hostnames:
    getent -s 'dns ldap' hosts xxx
works, while
    getent -s 'ldap' hosts xxx
hangs (but actually does not segfault ...)

Anyway: I added a bug report:  110563

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mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/