Re: root knowledge

Colin Robbins <c.robbins@xtel.co.uk> Fri, 08 May 1992 16:51 UTC

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From: Colin Robbins <c.robbins@xtel.co.uk>
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To: pays@faugeres.inria.fr
Cc: osi-ds@cicb.fr, Paul-Andre.Pays@faugeres.inria.fr, S.Kille@cs.ucl.ac.uk, osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: root knowledge

   >You have not told me how I would guess/discover that some DIT
   >branch is managed by a given DSA without relying on QUIPU specific
   >EDBInfo.

Connect to your local DSA.

Issue a command such as "list c=GB, ChainingProhibited, dontusecopy".
The operation must fail, as ChainingProhibited is set (unless you DSA
happens to hold the master c=GB data!).
The error message returned ought to give you a reference containing a DSA Name
and DSA Address of a DSA to contact to progress the query.


Colin