[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] check for LDAP ports during install

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:49 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Patch to verify that the LDAP ports are available when doing an 
>> installation. If they aren't the FDS installer will crash and burn.
> 
> To properly check you should not try to connect to the ports, but
> instead try to bind the ports.
> Connect may fail because of firewall or maybe because a server is bound
> only to the public IP and not localhost, etc ...
> Trying to bind to the wildcard address will tell you exactly if binding
> is possible. Can you change the patch to try to bind instead of trying
> to connect?

Revised patch to use bind() instead of connect(). I added a test for 
both IPv4 and IPv6 ports though I don't currently have IPv6 enabled so I 
can't test this. It at least doesn't seem to affect the IPv4 test.

rob
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