Re: reliability of LDAP lookups

[Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> I use an OpenLDAP server to check whether or not a user can send mail
> outside of the company. Actually, there are a set of replicas of the
> main
> server that are used for many different purposes, so it happens they are
> very
> busy, so sendmail hangs waiting for reply and eventually times out.
> For those who are not familiar with LDAP API, a client can be configured

Seems to me you are searching on non-indexed attributes. As I understood
from various postings it will make a very significant difference in speed.

Hugo.

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