Re: backend relay with empty suffix

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Nikos Voutsinas wrote:

> > The manageDSAit control (2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.2) seems to be the key 
> > to the issue you're facing; in fact, when selecting the appropriate 
> > database, if a request is done with the local suffix select_backend() 
> > fails when manageDSAit is set.  I don't quite understand this, but it 
> > results in selecting the only remaining database that matches the 
> > request DN, namely the "" database.  The offending code is
> >
> >     if( manageDSAit && len == dnlen &&
> >         !SLAP_GLUE_SUBORDINATE( be ) ) {
> >             continue;
> >         }
> >
> > in backend.c; to me, it looks a bit obscure.
>
>
> This one sounds quite different from #4958 and rather irrelevant. Would 
> you like me to file another ITS for this?

Yes, please.

p.



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