An important design decision

We faced an important design decision:

• updates on the NWS internal registry, are mirrored into the LDAP directory or
• a NWS-oriented LDAP backend interacts with the NWS registrations file.

We opted for the former way, since the design is more modular, and the addition of a new tool does not imply the re-compilation of the LDAP server.

The implementation was carried out into two steps:

1. the NWS nameserver was patched to output the updates of the registration file to a pipe;
2. an LDAP proxy was written that reads update requests from the pipe and performs the appropriate LDAP operations.

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