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Warren_129981
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Feb 13, 2014

Client unable to bind to LDAPs through LTM virtual for LDAPS

I have setup my F5 LTM 11.4.0 to have a virtual server that is receiving LDAP requests over 636. I have a profile setup with a cert/key for the client communication and a server profile setup with no...
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pmilot
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Feb 14, 2014

Here are the scenarios.

 

client => plain text => F5 => plain text => ADS:389 !WORKS!

 

client => plain text => F5 => SSL re-encrypt => ADS:636 !WORKS!

 

client => SSL PASS THROUGH => F5 => SSL PASS THROUGH => ADS:636 !WORKS!

 

client => SSL Client SSL Profile => F5 => SSL re-encrypt => ADS:636 !FAILS!

 

client => SSL Client SSL Profile => F5 => plain text => ADS:389 !FAILS!

 

As soon as we enable the Client-side SSL profile it fails with the SSL handshake failure.

 

Thanks

 

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    pmilot
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    Feb 14, 2014
    I'll mention as well that when we are connecting to the encrypted service we use ldaps:// and when unencrypted we change the URL to ldap://. We do understand that concept well. Thanks