Re: Can a Shadow Server "Proxy" UpdateRef?

[Ben Rockwood <benr@cuddletech.com>]

On 5/20/11 1:46 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
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> --On May 20, 2011 1:13:09 PM -0700 Ben Rockwood <benr@cuddletech.com>
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>> I want to shadow my directory into multiple locations.  I'd like to use
>> updateref to provide a way to make writes back to the master.  The
>> problem is that updateref hands a new LDAP URI back to the client who
>> then tries to connect to the appropriate server... this is a problem if
>> the client does not have access to connect directly to the referred
>> server.  In my case the shadow server has access to the master but the
>> clients do not (private subnet).
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>> Is there a way for the shadow server to send the write operation to the
>> master itself, as though its proxying it, rather than returning a
>> referral to the client?
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> See slapo-chain

Perfect, exactly the pointer I was looking for.   Thanks!!!

benr.