2An Open Directory request over a network

C H A P T E R 1

Concepts

Figure 1-2An Open Directory request over a network

Open Directory client

DirectoryService daemon

LDAP plug-in		NetInfo plug-in

Local System

public.example.com Publications

private.example.com

Marketing Engineering

Remote System

Request

Response

Service-specific protocol

over the Internet or intranet

Given the topology shown in Figure 1-2, the Open Directory function for listing registered nodes (dsGetDirNodeList) might return the following list:

/NetInfo/root/AppleMarketing

/NetInfo/root/AppleEngineering

/NetInfo/root/ApplePublications

/LDAPv3/private.example.com

/LDAPv3/public.example.com

The first part of the node name (LDAPv3 and NetInfo in this example) is the name of the plug-in that handles that node.

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