RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP Services with DNS

[Paul Leach <paulle@Exchange.Microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Greenblatt [mailto:bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:58 PM
> To: RL 'Bob' Morgan; Paul Leach
> Cc: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP
> Services with DNS
> 
> 
> At 10:40 AM 1/20/00 -0800, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> [snip]
> >So here's the pitch:
> >
> >  (1)  you need to glue together DSAs somehow
> >  (2)  doing this with records in the DIT is possible, but hasn't yet
> >       proven effective globally
> >  (3)  DNS SRV records can be used for this
> >  (4)  this takes advantage of globally-deployed DNS
> >  (5)  it only works (so far) for directory objects with 
> DNS-based names, 
> >       but that's OK since we're already familiar with 
> DNS-based names.
> >
> 
> As far as I can tell this isn't correct.  This draft doesn't 
> "glue" LDAP
> servers together.  It presents an algorithm that helps you 
> find one LDAP
> server that will probably have an entry for the DN that you have.  So,
> here's my pitch

If an LDAP server for DC=example1,DC=com got a request for
DC=example2,DC=com, the draft also lets it generate a referall to the right
server. That's the sense in which it glues servers together.

Paul