Re: big master server

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, richard lucassen wrote:

> have a big master server containing:
>
> dc=example1,dc=com
> dc=example2,dc=com
> dc=example3,dc=com
>
> and three slaves with only 1 part:
>
> slave 1: dc=example1,dc=com
> slave 2: dc=example2,dc=com
> slave 3: dc=example3,dc=com
>
> AFAIUI it's not possible. Is this true?

It's possible; we do something like that.

You will need a directive to hook them all together on the master,
though.

Something like:

suffix	dc=example1,dc=example,dc=com
replica	host=slave1
...

suffix	"dc=example,dc=com"

Note how the final suffix subsumes the previous ones.

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