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Foil 4 Directory Service (2)

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski


1 Directory Service is a collection of software that is used to store information about an enterprise. It generally consists of at least one directory server and one or more directory clients
2 DNS is an example of of a well-known client-server directory. Service (information limited to IP addresses and names)
3 A true directory service is used to store virtually unlimited types of information
4 Each e-mail system has its own directory system which maps user's name to an e-mail address. These directories cannot exchange information
5 Problem: every enterprise is using too many directory services which do not share data between themselves (it is known as N+1 problem)

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