Spring – java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out when connecting to ldap

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i am trying to connect to ldap active directory on windows server 2008 using spring ldap 1.3.1.RELEASE
and ldap config is as follows:

  • ldap url is: ldap://dc.fabrikam.com
  • username: administrator
  • password: 123456

– spring ldap configuration is as follows:

    <bean id="contextSource" 
    class="org.springframework.ldap.core.support.LdapContextSource">
    <property name="url" value="ldap://dc.fabrikam.com" />
    <property name="base" value="dc=fabrikam,dc=com" />     
    <property name="userDn" value="CN=administrator,CN=Users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com" />     
    <property name="password" value="123456" />


    <property name="baseEnvironmentProperties">
    <map>
        <entry key="java.naming.referral">
            <value>follow</value>
        </entry>
    </map>
    </property>

</bean>

<bean id="ldapTemplate" class="org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate">
    <constructor-arg ref="contextSource" />
</bean>

  • LDAPContactDAO:

    @Service
public class LDAPContactDAO implements ContactDAO {

@Autowired
private LdapTemplate ldapTemplate;

public List getAllContactNames() {
    return ldapTemplate.search("", "(objectclass=person)",
            new AttributesMapper() {
                public Object mapFromAttributes(Attributes attrs)
                        throws NamingException {
                    return attrs.get("cn").get();
                }
            });
}

}

-debugs before the exception:

2012-12-31/15:50:36.425 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG AuthenticationSource not set - using default implementation
2012-12-31/15:50:36.428 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG Not using LDAP pooling
2012-12-31/15:50:36.428 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG Trying provider Urls: ldap://192.168.1.118/dc=fabrikam,dc=com
2012-12-31/15:50:37.558 [http-bio-8080-exec-5] DEBUG Got Ldap context on server 'ldap://192.168.1.118/dc=fabrikam,dc=com'

when trying to use the getAllContactNames method, i am getting the following exception:

org.springframework.ldap.CommunicationException: fabrikam.com.com:389; nested exception is javax.naming.CommunicationException: fabrikam.com.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect]
org.springframework.ldap.support.LdapUtils.convertLdapException(LdapUtils.java:100)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:319)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:259)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:571)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:556)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:411)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:431)
org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:451)
com.xeno.advancedphonedirectory.LDAPContactDAO.getAllContactNames(LDAPContactDAO.java:20)
com.xeno.advancedphonedirectory.web.IndexController.get(IndexController.java:20)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:176)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:426)
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:414)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:790)
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:351)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:213)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:200)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
    at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
    at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:189)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1580)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:134)
    at com.sun.jndi.url.ldap.ldapURLContextFactory.getObjectInstance(ldapURLContextFactory.java:35)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getURLObject(NamingManager.java:584)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.processURL(NamingManager.java:364)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.processURLAddrs(NamingManager.java:344)
    at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:316)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralContext.<init>(LdapReferralContext.java:93)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralException.getReferralContext(LdapReferralException.java:132)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(LdapCtx.java:1838)
    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(LdapCtx.java:1749)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_search(ComponentDirContext.java:368)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:338)
    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:321)
    at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.search(InitialDirContext.java:248)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate$4.executeSearch(LdapTemplate.java:253)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:293)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:259)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:571)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:556)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:411)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:431)
    at org.springframework.ldap.core.LdapTemplate.search(LdapTemplate.java:451)
    at com.xeno.advancedphonedirectory.LDAPContactDAO.getAllContactNames(LDAPContactDAO.java:20)
    at com.xeno.advancedphonedirectory.web.IndexController.get(IndexController.java:20)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:176)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:426)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:414)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:790)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:719)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:644)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:549)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1002)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

please advise.

UPDATE:

I managed to connect to active directory with jxplorer using the following configuration:

  1. Host: dc.fabrikam.com
  2. Port: 389
  3. Base DN: dc=fabrikam,dc=com
  4. User DN: CN=administrator,CN=Users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com
  5. Password: secret

but i still getting timeout with spring ldap connection.

UPDATE2:

the issue is now narrowed to spring ldap because i tried the above configuration with JNDI and connection to ldap works fine as mentioned in here:

ldap search is very slow

i think that the referral property might be the issue.

Best Answer

We found this issue was due to a non-existent domain controller in DNS. If you're using a domain name instead of IP, do an NSLOOKUP to show all the IPs the domain points to: 

NSLOOKUP fabrikam.com

Ensure all the IPs from NSLOOKUP are reachable on port 389:

Test-NetConnection 172.30.2.1 -port 389
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