>Chen, Shi Jun SLC CT PEK wrote: >> I want to write a overlay "DirectForwarding" that does not do the LDAP >> request in local back-bdb, but intercepts the request and forwards it to >> a remote DSA. >>
Howard Chu wrote: >This sounds to me like just using back-ldap all by itself. Why do you Think this needs to be an overlay? Yes, I can configure slapd.conf to use back-ldap as the backend database. But how can I make back-ldap to select the server dynamically according to the concrete content of LDAP request? For example, the entries are in the same sub-tree, but are devided in three remote DSAs (A, B & C). When the local DSA receives the request on entry resided in B, how to use back-ldap to route the request to DSA B? Obviously, specifying DSA A, B & C in a single ldapurl argument will not work, for back-ldap just uses the first server of the list. And can I configure multiple back-ldap to achieve it? But there is a problem that these entries in A, B & C are in the same sub-tree and will have the same suffix. And another question: can we have other methods to specify the URIs instead of configuring them statically in slapd.conf?
