Re: Forwarding requests?

[Andrew McCall <it.andrew.mccall@oldham.gov.uk>]

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 13:21, Bjørn Ove Grøtan wrote:
> Andrew McCall:
> > At the moment, our LDAP directory is set up so that about 4000 desktop
> > machines do a search on the address book using the search base of
> > o=oldhammbc,c=uk.  We are planning to perform a major overhall of the
> > LDAP direcotory, and I would like to change the base to
> > dc=oldham,dc=gov,dc=uk.
> > 
> > I can't do this if it involves going to all 4000 PC's and changing their
> > address book settings, but I was wondering if there was anyway that
> > OpenLDAP can "forward" requests from one search base to another? I would
> > like to be able to put some setting in so that the old base is
> > automatically translated into the new base - is this possible??
> 
> You can make the change to reflect your new base and then make another
> database with your old base but no entries wich uses your new setup as
> referral. I haven't tested it myself, but I'v been told it should work.

This seems to be what I want to do, but the documents are not clear on
how I get it to do this. Taken from the web site docs :

===

5.2.1.8. referral <URI>

This directive specifies the referral to pass back when slapd cannot
find a local database to handle a request.

Example:

        referral ldap://root.openldap.org

This will refer non-local queries to the global root LDAP server at the
OpenLDAP Project. Smart LDAP clients can re-ask their query at that
server, but note that most of these clients are only going to know how
to handle simple LDAP URLs that contain a host part and optionally a
distinguished name part.

===

To me, this seems to say that if a request can't be handled send it to
another server, not refer dc's to another dc.

Anyone clear this up?

Thanks

Andrew McCall



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