ldap and hosts

[Andrew]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:17 -0600, Andrew wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a ldap server running on another distro and I use it for a lot of 
>> different things (such as users, passwords, and hosts) and it all works 
>> fine on that distro.  I'm also trying to get all of this to work in FC5 
>> and so far I have gotten users and passwords to work but the hosts is 
>> giving me problems.  If I type getent hosts I see the complete list of 
>> hosts as it should be but if I try to ping one of the hosts it just 
>> hangs.  If I try to ping the ip address everything works fine.  I should 
>> also note that I can't ping domain's either (such as yahoo.com) again it 
>> just hangs but if I use a browser I can browse to them.  On another 
>> note, when I type getent hosts in the ldap console i can see the query 
>> but when I try to ping a single domain I see nothing in the ldap 
>> console, not even an attempt.
>>
>>     
> ----
> you need to confirm padl tools setup...
>
> what's output of ???
>
> grep host /etc/nsswitch
>
> grep host /etc/ldap.conf
>
> Craig
>
>   
padl tools setup?

the hosts line from my ldap config
nss_base_hosts  ou=Hosts,dc=example,dc=org

from nsswitch.conf
#hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
hosts:      files dns ldap

Note: ldap was before dns but by moving it back i was able to ping 
yahoo.com.  But I still can't ping hosts in the hosts list.

thanks again
-Andrew