Re: Active Directory Server and strange referrals like DomainDnsZones ForestDnsZones - Unable to chase referral

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> It turned out that this errors were cause by the ADS sending not only data but also strange referrals:
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> ldapsearch -x -H ldap://10.2.1.70 -D "CN=ldap,CN=Users,DC=av-verlag,DC=de" -W -b "dc=av-verlag,dc=de"
> .... a lot of ldif here, and at the end of the output: ...
> # search reference
> ref: ldap://ForestDnsZones.av-verlag.de/DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=av-verlag,DC=de
>
> # search reference
> ref: ldap://DomainDnsZones.av-verlag.de/DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=av-verlag,DC=de
>
> # search reference
> ref: ldap://av-verlag.de/CN=Configuration,DC=av-verlag,DC=de
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> These hostnames after the ldap:// are not valid hostnames.
> I am wondering where they are comming from.
> To work around this problem I added this to /etc/hosts:
> 10.2.1.70       ForestDnsZones.av-verlag.de
> 10.2.1.70       DomainDnsZones.av-verlag.de
> 10.2.1.70       av-verlag.de
>
> This works, but is dirty.
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> My ADS admin was not able to tell me what these
> referals are about nor does he know how to disable them.
> He told me that they returned by default.
>
> Is this a known problem ?
> Can I tell libnss-ldap to ignore them somehow ?