Re: LDAP Sort Control sort order?

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

They are probably sorted this way because they are stored a strings on
the server.

I do not know if there is a special OID you could use to control
the sort of IP addresss, but I would guess there is not.

Graham.

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:06:47PM -0700, Jeff Mandel wrote:
> In sorting a return list from LDAP of hostnames and IP addresses, the
> sort order falls to the old standard that 2 is greater than 19.
> ie "Sorted by iphostnumber appears in this order"
> Host 18: 10.1.16.18
> Host 19: 10.1.16.19
> Host 2: 10.1.16.2.
> 
> Likewise you get
> 10.1.16.1
> 10.1.16.10
> 10.1.16.11
> 10.1.16.2
> 
> instead of
> 10.1.16.1
> 10.1.16.2
> 10.1.16.10
> 10.1.16.11
> 
> Perl is handy at sorting things the way most folks want to see them, but
> since we're taking advantage of LDAP server sorts, is there some special
> way to call the sort so numbers sort in order?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
>