Yup, can't disagree with that, I would guess it's little more than an implementation specific side effect of the way they determine what responses a GC should give and those that it shouldn't.  After all, a GC's response should be (loosely) consistent regardless of which GC the query was submitted to.  Having said that though, and as you already implied, there are indeed cases whereby a response from one GC differs from another (unrelated to replication latency which is a given) generally due to the domain in which the GC exists ... but that really shouldn't have any baring on the forest wide NCs.

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Exactly... all of the info is on every GC already, why not let people query it through the GC port which is most controlled by what is set as PAS.  Instead if you have a bind already to a GC port on a DC you have to open another bind to the LDAP port to search for attributes in the config.... Why?
 
Actually I don't think it should be a matter of what is marked PAS for the schema and config NCs, they should be fully searchable through the GC port, there are a bunch of other special cases so that would simply fit in.
 
  joe


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Never sat down and checked them ... I would guess some of them are PAS enabled simply due to the fact that they're used on both common domain NC objects and those in the config. (and possibly the schema).
 
Maybe it took so much extra disk space to maintain the PAS=1 they decided against it  :-) or "since they're already everywhere, why bother" may have crossed their minds.
 
Seriously, the primary reason has to be it serves no purpose since the GC maintains only those PAS enabled attributes populated on objects within the domain NC.  Sure it's got a copy of the config. and schema but not because of its GC'ness.

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How come all attributes of all objects that live entirely in the configuration NC and Schema NC aren't PAS enabled?

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