Re: Proxy/caching forwarder for LDAP?

["Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp@mirapoint.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:

> I'm not sure I totally understood what this is describing, but I've had
> some similar ideas about a cache. I suppose it would make sense in a proxy
> slapd, same as for DNS servers. But how would you configure
> expiration/lifetimes for cached entries? In DNS, the supplier/master tells
> you. What would you do in LDAP? Just configure a default expiration, and
> special cases for particular subtrees?

Yeah, that would be the most obvious solution.  It isn't great,
but it is acceptable.

-Philip