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Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
Ryan
There is another approach that you have not mentioned, and that is
to have an LDAP knowledge server. The LDAP knowlegde server
holds cross references to possibly hundreds of other LDAP servers.
THen a client only needs to know about its local LDAP server and
the knowledge server. The knowledge server will return a referral to
the correct LDAP server that holds a particular naming context. This
method allows both the dc and country based naming schemes to
co-exist, as a knowledge server can hold references to both types of
DN (since there are no name clashes between them, all the DNs are
still unique)
With replication between knowledge servers, this information can be
distributed around the world quite easily.
David
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