Re: missing entries from queries

[David B. <D.B...@ma...>]

Apologies - it's not strictly Net::LDAP related....

I don't know if it's related, but I have a novell (5.1) LDAP server that no
matter what I do I can't get it to return more than 500 entries (tried 4
different clients including Net::LDAP).  
It has a default setting of returning a max of 500, but seems to completely
ignore it when I change that to anything else..I've tried
501,1000,5000,10000 with no difference.
You see, I have about 10000 user objects (sorry inetorg objects) across ~20
ou's, and frequently more than 500 objects in an ou.  
(rebooting and/or reloading the NLM's doesn't help)
I have worked around the problem in Net::LDAP with code like:

foreach $ou (@oulist){
  foreach $letter (@alphabet) {
    (search for all names beginning with $letter)
  }
}
...which works because I always have less than 500 smiths in an ou!

Any Novell-ites seen similar?... and got a solution? then e-mail me off-list.

David.

At 08:25 PM 2/1/01 +1100, Pete wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have come across a strange issue and am hoping others may 
>have something to offer as we can't figure out why it is happening.
>
>Firstly, the server is setup to return 1000 entries on a query.
>
>Now when querying sn=me*, only 113 names are returned, there 
>should be in the realm of 240.  The problem was highlighted when 
>looking for sn values of met* there should be 10, but we only get 1 
>back.  So that was the next query we did, sn=met*, which returns 
>the right number.
>
>I think it has something to do with the server rather than the client 
>(we have tried perl ldap and two other ldap clients and the results 
>are the same).
>
>Like I said, I'm hoping someone may have seen this before and can 
>offer a pointer as we have spent ages on this with no idea where to 
>look next.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Pete.
>
>
>

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David Bussenschutt          Email: D.B...@ma...
Senior Computing Support Officer & Systems Administrator/Programmer
Location: Griffith University. Information Technology Services
          Brisbane Qld. Aust.  (TEN bldg. rm 1.33) Ph: (07)38757079
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