[81650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Jun 22 13:37:05 2005
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:36:29 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Andrew Staples <andrews@ltinet.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200506221726.j5MHQKQe021070@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> He *might* be able to sell the various branch offices on a solution that
> uses LDAP or similar, where each branch manages its section of the LDAP
> tree,
I don't think you can do that because you need to consolidate the branches
into a single namespace with some means of dealing with clashes. Most of
the complexity of the SLB Exim/LDAP system is for handling fuzzy matching
and name clashes - though see http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.5
> and the only centralized part the offices would have to trust HQ to do
> is possibly run a robust redirector to the various LDAP servers.
That's not necessary if the sites have local LDAP database replicas.
Tony.
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