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Re: find_connection improvement

To: "Parkes, Lloyd" <Lloyd.Parkes@eds.com>
Subject: Re: find_connection improvement
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:09:20 -0700
Cc: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: <3890DC70-EC15-11D8-90A9-000D93515822@eds.com>
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At 12:08 PM 8/11/2004, Parkes, Lloyd wrote:
>[I]t matches servers by comparing their names

By design.

>and names just aren't a suitable matching criterion because servers can have many names.

Not a significant problem due to common naming practices of
hostports used in LDAP URLs (used in LDAP referrals/continuations).

>I think the only way to do this properly is by IP address.

I think using hostport is proper, as it is the hostport that
provides the location of service described by the URL.

Kurt

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- find_connection improvement
  - From: "Parkes, Lloyd" <Lloyd.Parkes@eds.com>

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