[Pdns-users] Re: PowerDNS LDAP wildcard regression?

[Norbert Sendetzky]

Hi Scott

Thanks for your bug report.

> A wildcard entry for *.members.simunex.com (and likewise
> *.groups.simunex.com, *.lists.simunex.com) is present in my LDAP directory.
> DNs are like below, of course:
>
> dn: dc=*,dc=members,dc=simunex,dc=com,ou=dns,dc=simunex,dc=com
>
> However, doing a search for an entry such as sbalmos.members.simunex.com
> gives an NXDOMAIN, while OpenLDAP reports errant escaping of the *, as
> below:
>
> May 21 03:02:35 flyingpig slapd[7740]: do_search: invalid dn
> (dc=\*,dc=members,dc=simunex,dc=com,ou=dns,dc=simunex,dc=com)

The dn components were escaped but this is counterproductive. The patch 
attached replaces a single line in the lookup_tree() code and should solve 
your problem.


Norbert
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