RE: Architecure Draft [Dont Use Copy]

[Alan Lloyd <Alan.Lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John - thanks for that - but this response has major problems. Say we
awant autrhenticated access to 8 servers and by definition with LDAP
servers we have to replicate everything to every where that is there is
about 50+ replication agreements ie. 7*8.. etc you can work this out.
This means that a client must know which part of the tree lives in what
server that is the master - so in this LDAP client we do.....
I want the master entry - and from scanning all the LDAP severs I know
about (because of hand configuration, I then scan them for their master
context and then get the entry i desire...

Its this whole hand-cranked multi-ldap actions that make it so bad its
unworkable. 

LDAP severs and what they do,  will get worse and worse - with the more
you add.

regards alan
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From: John Merrells
To: Alan Lloyd
Cc: 'LDUP '
Sent: 8/10/98 9:09:15 AM
Subject: Re: Architecure Draft [Dont Use Copy]



Alan Lloyd wrote:

> In x.500 entries can be selected as a copy/replica through the use of
> Dont Use Copy in DAP and this is carried in DSP. This means that
entries
> in the DIT need a notion of master or copy indicators.

Our current thinking is that this bahaviour is up to clients to
implement.
Information about the LDAP servers hosting the Naming Context is
published in sub-entries below the Naming Context. A client that
demands high consistency would discover the access point for the
Primary Replica and apply all its operations there.

John