(RADIATOR) Patch for Radius::Ldap.pm to support a list of ldap servers

[Markus Moeller]

How would you configure two AuthBy LDAP2 clauses for redundancy ? e.g  Only 
use the second one if the first is unreachable.

Thank you
Markus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike McCauley" <mikem at open.com.au>
To: "Markus Moeller" <huaraz at moeller.plus.com>
Cc: <radiator at open.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Patch for Radius::Ldap.pm to support a list of ldap 
servers


> Hello Markus,
>
> This is an interesting idea that could be useful for some people.
>
> Support for multiple hosts was added to Net::LDAP in Jan 2003. I wonder if 
> we
> can safely assume that all custemers have a later version of Net::LDAP? 
> Views
> from anyone?
>
> In the meantime, we generally intended multiple LDAP server to be handled 
> with
> multiple chained AuthBy LDAP2 clauses.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:16, Markus Moeller wrote:
>> I needed to use a list of redundant ldapservers. perl-ldap does support 
>> an
>> array of servers but Radiator doesn't. Please find below a patch which
>> allows a list of ldapservers in <AutbBy LDAP2> , etc..
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> P.S I am not too experienced with perl so the below might be easier
>> achieved.
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> --- Radiator-4.0/Radius/Ldap.pm Tue Dec 18 21:24:04 2007
>> +++ /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Radius/Ldap.pm   Wed Feb 20 21:59:20 2008
>> @@ -202,9 +202,16 @@
>>      return 1 if $self->{ld}; # We are already connected
>>      return 0 if time < $self->{backoff_until};
>>
>> -    my $host = &Radius::Util::format_special($self->{Host});
>> +    my $hoststring = &Radius::Util::format_special($self->{Host});
>>      my $port =
>> &Radius::Util::get_port(&Radius::Util::format_special($self->{Port})); -
>> $self->{connectedHost} = "$host:$port";
>> +    my @hostarray = split(/[\s]+/,$hoststring);
>> +    my $host = \@hostarray;
>> +    if ( $hoststring =~ /:/ ) {
>> +      $self->{connectedHost} = "$hoststring";
>> +      $port='';
>> +    } else {
>> +      $self->{connectedHost} = "$hoststring:$port";
>> +    }
>>      $self->log($main::LOG_INFO, "Connecting to $self->{connectedHost}");
>>
>>      $self->{bound} = undef;
>
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