ID: 15637 Comment by: nigel at cofa dot unsw dot edu dot au Reported By: cjm46543 at hotmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux - RedHat 7.2 PHP Version: 4.4.0-dev New Comment:
Please delete my comment above. I found the best solution for me was that I could test whether I could do ldap_start_tls($myconnection), and although this isn't perfect, works well enough for me and is almost equivalent to testing whether the server is available. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-11-30 22:41:29] nigel at cofa dot unsw dot edu dot au So there is no way if we are using OpenLDAP to distinguish betweeen: * server is up and pingable * LDAP server is running ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-05 07:58:25] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I added sniper's comments to the ldap_connect() docs but am leaving this bug report open until a doc member more familiar with LDAP can close out this bug. Here's the commit: http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/ldap/functions/ldap-connect.xml?r1=1.4&r2=1.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-06 14:31:52] mitteljc at e-i dot com My solution was to go one step further by using 'ldap_bind' to test the connection : $ds=ldap_connect("titi.tata.net"); [EMAIL PROTECTED]($ds,"cn=toto","tutu"); if ($r) { bla bla bla } else die("LDAP server not accessed !"); The '@' before 'ldap_bind' disables Warning dysplay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-05-03 17:33:57] sanjay_ichalkaranje at yahoo dot com I was trying to test my code which supposed to tell me whether a LDAP server is alive and rechable or not. But no matter what IP address I specified in ldap_connect it returned a valid resource. I found a way out by first pinging the server to know whether its alive and then trying to bind to know whether it is running LDAP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-06-27 08:17:50] iane at sussex dot ac dot uk I can't get ldap_connect to return false, even when I pass an invalid URI or an invalid hostname. At least, I think ".*&%^$ldap.central.susx.ac.uk" is an invalid host name, and so is "4". They both return ldap connection resources, though. It is important, because I need to be able to test the hostname validity so that i know whether the problem with the host is that (a) it doesn't exist (b) it is down (c) the ldap service is down. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/15637 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15637&edit=1
