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List:       openldap-devel
Subject:    Re: Proxy/caching forwarder for LDAP?
From:       "Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp () mirapoint ! com>
Date:       1999-06-30 3:22:32
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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

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