pdns ldap backend not working

[Jan Groenewald]

pdns-backend-ldap has not worked out of the box on 10.04, 12.04, 14.04.

root@aimsns4_01:/var/log# tail -f syslog
Jul 15 08:47:45 aimsns4_01 pdns[5688]: Our pdns instance exited with code 1
Jul 15 08:47:45 aimsns4_01 pdns[5688]: Respawning
Jul 15 08:47:46 aimsns4_01 pdns[26369]: Guardian is launching an instance
Jul 15 08:47:46 aimsns4_01 pdns[26369]: Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
Jul 15 08:47:46 aimsns4_01 pdns[26369]: This is a guarded instance of pdns
Jul 15 08:47:46 aimsns4_01 pdns[26369]: Fatal error: Trying to set unexisting parameter 'ldap-host'
^C
root@aimsns4_01:/var/log# cd /etc/powerdns/
root@aimsns4_01:/etc/powerdns# tail pdns.conf
launch=ldap
ldap-host=ldapi:///
ldap-method=simple
ldap-basedn=dc=aims,dc=ac,dc=za
ldap-basedn-axfr-override=yes
ldap-filter-lookup=(&(:target:)(objectclass=dnsdomain2)(!(objectclass=dhcphost)))
ldap-filter-axfr=(&(:target:)(objectclass=dnsdomain2)(!(objectclass=dhcphost)))

include-dir=/etc/powerdns/pdns.d
root@aimsns4_01:/etc/powerdns# lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
root@aimsns4_01:/etc/powerdns#

Note the upstream but report may or may not need to go to powerdns devs, as the LDAP support was dropped in 2011 when a maintainer left, then forked late 2012. I can't tell whether the pdns-backend-ldap package in Debian/Ubuntu comes from pdns or from the fork.

http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201104/msg00347.html
http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2012-December/009476.html
http://repo.or.cz/w/pdns-ldap-backend.git

Ref
https://wiki.debian.org/LDAP/PowerDNSSetup

[Peter van Dijk (habbie)]

This actually looks like the ldap backend is not launching at all - is there anything in /etc/powerdns/pdns.d overriding the launch line?

The fork was upstreamed, partially, just months ago, so what you have is the unforked stuff, to be clear.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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