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RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
This is one approach to a directory service - ie a directory of
directories when the directories that it points to are no true
directories - just database servers - but this does not solve the
distributed authentication issue - let alone - the issues with massive
overheads when doing searches from the top server over 20-50 servers.
Simple client - server architectures with lightweight "access
protocols" cost heaps with additional "referred" comms, info replication
and info management - as opposed to distributed system based
architectures .
" what the technology does not do... humans have to"..
regards alan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chadwick
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 5:12 AM
> To: Ryan Moats; ietf-ldapext@netscape.com; Roland Hedberg
> Subject: Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
>
>
> > At 14:21 1999-05-06 -0500, Ryan Moats wrote:
> >
> > >Method: Client configuration
> > >
> > >In this case, the client administrator configures it with a list of
> known
> > >LDAP servers to send queries to. This list will be right
> (initially),
> > >but modification to the list requires client updates and doesn't
> scale
> > >real well.
> >
> > I agree, it doesn't scale. Therefore this only works if there are
> > a limited number of known LDAP servers that a client has to be
> > configured with in order to be able to find the rest
> > (or at least the majority).
> >
>
> I agree completely with you.
> In fact, the knowledge server approach that I mentioned in a
> previous message could in fact be taken on by the corporate LDAP
> server. This becomes the knowledge server (for the organisation). It
> has simply configured all the knowlegde that was held in the
> thousands of corporate clients into the one central server, thereby
> minimising the effort of all of the employees. Central management of
> knowledge as opposed to each individual managing his own
> knowledge.
>
> The clients then only need to know about 1 LDAP server, that of the
> corporate directory.
>
> Extension of this idea, leads to having a knowledge server on the
> Internet that can be used by lots of organisations, and is pointed to
> by each organisation server. I believe that DANTE are hoping to
> build such a knowledge server this year, to replace the QUipu X.500
> root server that they have at the moment.
>
> David#
>
>
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