Initializing LDAP...Failed (256)

[jerryboi]

Thank you for the quick reply, I'm trying hard to comprehend it. My hosts file looks like this:

zimbra@always:/> cat /etc/hosts
#
# hosts         This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
#               mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
#               used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
#               On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
#               "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0         ipv6-localnet

ff00::0         ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2         ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3         ipv6-allhosts
195.70.35.236   always.ringstwice.net always

[phoenix]

The hosts file looks OK but I'd suggest disabling ipv6, it can cause problems. Did you make changes to your DNS A & MX records based on the rest of my post?

[jerryboi]

Disabled IPv6, bit didn't make any changes... Did not know what to change, really. Did look into the hostname bit, I think what you ment there was

host `hostname -f`

This is what my "dns config" looks like:

And still confused about all this not so simple stuff. Thank you very much for your help.

[jholder]

Can you post the output of
zmlocalconfig | grep ldap

Thanks
john

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by jerryboi

Disabled IPv6, bit didn't make any changes... Did not know what to change, really. Did look into the hostname bit, I think what you ment there was

host `hostname -f`

With or without the '-f' gives you the same result.

Originally Posted by jerryboi

This is what my "dns config" looks like:
And still confused about all this not so simple stuff. Thank you very much for your help.

That's OK as far as it goes, the problem is there are no public DNS servers with your domain name in them. That's why the split-DNS isn't working, it's meant to overcome the problem of having a server on a private IP address behind a NAT device. This report shows no records, if the only DNS server that has your domain name is also behind a NAT router then this won't work.

[jerryboi]

Thank you both for your help.

zimbra@always:/home/jerryboi> zmlocalconfig | grep ldap
ldap_cache_account_maxage = 15
ldap_cache_account_maxsize = 5000
ldap_cache_cos_maxage = 15
ldap_cache_cos_maxsize = 100
ldap_cache_domain_maxage = 15
ldap_cache_domain_maxsize = 100
ldap_cache_server_maxage = 15
ldap_cache_server_maxsize = 100
ldap_cache_timezone_maxsize = 100
ldap_cache_zimlet_maxage = 15
ldap_cache_zimlet_maxsize = 100
ldap_connect_pool_debug = false
ldap_connect_pool_initsize = 1
ldap_connect_pool_maxsize = 50
ldap_connect_pool_prefsize = 0
ldap_connect_pool_timeout = 120000
ldap_connect_timeout = 30000
ldap_host = always.ringstwice.net
ldap_is_master = true
ldap_log_level = 0
ldap_master_url = ldap://always.ringstwice.net:389
ldap_port = 389
ldap_root_password = *
ldap_url = ldap://always.ringstwice.net:389
postfix_sender_canonical_maps = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-scm.cf
postfix_transport_maps = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-transport.cf
postfix_virtual_alias_domains = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-vad.cf
postfix_virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-vam.cf
postfix_virtual_mailbox_domains = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-vmd.cf
postfix_virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/opt/zimbra/conf/ldap-vmm.cf
zimbra_class_provisioning = com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning
zimbra_ldap_password = *
zimbra_ldap_user = zimbra
zimbra_ldap_userdn = uid=zimbra,cn=admins,cn=zimbra
zimbra_zmprov_default_to_ldap = false

On my system (opensuse 10.1) the '-f' switch does make a difference:

zimbra@always:/home/jerryboi> host `hostname`   
Host always not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
zimbra@always:/home/pc> host `hostname -f`
always.ringstwice.net has address 195.70.35.236

My domain is not .com but .net, this is the record you should be looking at. The same parkxx.secureserver.com is supposed to hold the address record for the always host, that serves the rest of the zone. I only have a a web interface to configure it, as shown in the previous post. It is most definitely not behind a NAT router.

It is no no never so simple.

[jerryboi]

To sum it up, one should be very careful if the domain registrator's "total dns control" interface looks like on the above picture (we call that color goose-green, by the way). Sometimes your host's A records don't get registered so that pingability.com would confirm it, you're better off configuring your own dns server.