Things are publicly published through the local BDII that normally runs on
the CE. So IMO it is reasonable and perhaps also us (other sites) should
do the same in order to reduce publicly available ports.
cheers
alessandra
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ross, D (Derek) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage
>> management [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jamie
>> Kelvin Ferguson
>> Sent: 07 July 2005 17:05
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: dCache information system
>>
>>
>> Whats the name of the srm/SE machine at RAL. If I use
>> dcache.gridpp.rl.ac.uk in
>> a standard query that I use successfully for all tier 2
>> sites, I get the
>> following
>>
>> $ ldapsearch -LLL -x -h dcache.gridpp.rl.ac.uk -p 2135 -b
>> "mds-vo-name=local,
>> o=grid" "GlueSAAccessControlBaseRule=dteam" GlueSAStateAvailableSpace
>> GlueSAStateUsedSpace
>>
>> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
>>
>> But thats after its been hanging for ages.
>>
>> However if I try,
>>
>> $ ldapsearch -x -H ldap://site-bdii.gridpp.rl.ac.uk:2170 -b
>> mds-vo-name=RAL-LCG2,o=grid "GlueSAAccessControlBaseRule=dteam"
>> GlueSAStateAvailableSpace GlueSAStateUsedSpace
>>
>> I get the storages returned.
>>
>> The second one clearly queries a different machine but I
>> thought you could
>> query an SE/srm directly?
>> Why doesn't the first one work?
>
> Because port 2135 on our SRM isn't open at our site firewall.
> I'd have to defer to someone more knowledgeable about the information system that me to tell you if that's reasonable or not, but yours is the first complaint I've heard of.
>
> Derek
>
>
>
>
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