Re: More efficient way to represent local+remote views?

[Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Kartik Subbarao wrote:

> I'm currently using the following configuration for an application-specific 
> LDAP directory to present a unified view of its local data (ou=localapp) and 
> remote data (ou=people), all under dc=example,dc=com:
>
> database hdb
> suffix ou=localapp,dc=example,dc=com
> # ...
>
> database meta
> suffix dc=example,dc=com
> uri ldapi:///ou=localapp,dc=example,dc=com
> uri ldap://remoteldap.example.com/ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
> [...]
> local backend. Is it possible to eliminate that overhead through an alternate 
> approach? I looked at back_relay, but couldn't get it to do what I wanted. I

If everything will be strictly confined to the two ou you stated, try 
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201206/msg00166.html ... 
just change the first "meta" to "hdb" and tweak the suffix directives 
(e.g. back-null would be "dc=example,dc=com").