[Tutor] LDAP search with ldap library module failing

[Antonio de la Fuente]

Hello everybody,

I am trying to do a ldap search against a LDAP server, like this:

ld = ldap.initialize(ldapURI)
ld.simple_bind_s(ldapBindDn,ldapBindPass)
zones = ld.search_st(ldapBase,ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,'(&(objectclass=dnszone)(cn=*))',['dnszonename','modifytimestamp'],timeout=5)

It times out after 5 seconds, and if I don't use timeout, it will hang
up for ever.

Now, if I search fog cn=ab*, a much limited search it will return the search
results. Thinking that it could be a limitation from the server side, I've done
the same search with ldapsearch in bash, and it gets what is expected.

I am using ipython, and python 2.6 in a linux OS.

My question is: How can I try to debug this issue?

Thank you in advance fo your support,
Antonio.


Error output:

In [122]: zones = ld.search_st(ldapBase,ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE,'(&(objectclass=dnszone)(cn=*))',['dnszonename','modifytimestamp'],timeout=5)
ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input
The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid
The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (379, 0))

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TIMEOUT                                   Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/admin/afm/tinydns_databases/<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.pyc in search_st(self, base, scope, filterstr, attrlest, attrsonly, timeout)
    517
    518   def search_st(self,base,scope,filterstr='(objectClass=*)',attrlist=None,attrsonly=0,timeout=-1):
--> 519     return self.search_ext_s(base,scope,filterstr,attrlist,attrsonly,None,None,timeout)
    520
    521   def set_cache_options(self,*args,**kwargs):


[...]


/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.pyc in _ldap_call(self, func, *args, **kwargs)
     94     try:
     95       try:
---> 96         result = func(*args,**kwargs)
     97         if __debug__ and self._trace_level>=2:
     98           if func.__name__!="unbind_ext":