LDAP lunacy and other stuff

LDAP is a fantastic tool to use, especially when you are using it with an anti-spam solution to validate email addresses on inbound mail. It is a great solution until something goes wrong. In my case, my Domino Directory had gotten corrupted and that made for a fun afternoon.

It all started when my application server began to become unresponsive during the late morning hours. That also happens to be the server that I do the LDAP lookups against. So, I rebooted the server and didn't think much more about it until shortly after the restart and I checked to make sure that LDAP lookups were being completed properly. All of a sudden, any time an address was being requested, it would find the entry in the Domino Directory but return to the spam server that it was not a valid address which then caused all messages coming in at the time to be rejected. Not a good thing. So I killed LDAP lookups against Domino and started the process of trying to figure out what went wrong. I started by calling the spam vendor and they couldn't find anything wrong, which led me to call Domino support. After doing a bunch of different debugging, the tech found the problem. Something had gone missing from my anonymous LDAP lookup entry in the all servers configuration document.
So for giggles, I did a design refresh on my Domino Directory and noticed that several items were being added. I even saw LDAP flash by a couple of times on the lower bar. That led me to think that somehow my Domino Directory had gotten corrupt and I somehow lost my configuration for LDAP. After re-adding the objectClass attribute type, LDAP started working again. I always seem to get the weird ones.

Outside of that and complaining about paying $3.50 for a gallon of gas, not too much else happening in my world. This past Sunday we had a great time helping Shannon celebrate her 17th anniversary of her 21st birthday. The NEOLUG meeting takes place tomorrow at IBM in Cleveland. Denise and I are all set to fly off to Boston a week from Saturday so I can attend the jumpstart training at Admin2007. Which leads me to one complaint I have with this conference. A few days after finalizing all our plans for the trip, Clippings sends this email. It would have been nice to have gotten that a few days earlier then I could have gotten away with having another day in Boston. Harrumph!

Well, that's it for now. I'll only be attending the Sunday jumpstarts in Boston, so if you see a big guy wearing this tshirt that looks like this:
Say hi!