>>> "Dr. Ogg" <[email protected]> schrieb am 18.11.2020 um 17:55 in Nachricht
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> http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy‑protocol.txt 
> 
> for reference.
> 
> 
> From: Howard Chu <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 8:51 AM
> To: Paul B. Henson <[email protected]>, openldap‑[email protected] 
> <openldap‑[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: HAProxy protocol support?
> Paul B. Henson wrote:
>> So management is insisting that we migrate our openLDAP systems from on 
> premise into the cloud <sigh>. Specifically, AWS behind one of their load 
> balancers.
>>
>> However, we currently rely upon some level of IP address based access 
> control to distinguish between on‑campus and off‑campus clients. The Amazon

> load balancers
>> do client NAT, so the back end servers have no idea who is connecting at
the 
> TCP/IP level.
>>
>> They do support the haproxy in band protocol for supplying this information

> from the load balancer to the server, but that requires specific support
from 
> the
>> server to do. I don't see any such support in openldap or any evidence of 
> past discussion regarding it.
>>
>> Is this something that would be considered as a possible feature to be 
> included at some point, or something not desired as part of the code base?
> 
> Depends on what that feature actually looks like. Feel free to submit a 
> proposal
> on the ‑devel mailing list, including background info on what HAproxy 
> protocol
> looks like, and what exact behaviors you want it to provide.

I wonder: Would it be possible to use a specific named bind for on-campus
hosts, and use the name used for binding to controll further access?

> 
> ‑‑
>   ‑‑ Howard Chu
>   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com 
>   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ 
>   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/ 


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