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Re: failover timeout.

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: failover timeout.
From: "pierre-yves.verdon" <pierre-yves.verdon@wanadooportails.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:41:41 +0200
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On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:04, Medievalist wrote:
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> http://www.webperformance.org/dns-issue.html
"it simply told clients which IP they should connect to, without any 
consideration of the condition of the server they were connecting to."

i agree with medievalist, don't trust DNS round robin for failover

> If you want LDAP server failover beyond what OpenLDAP itself provides, I
> recommend linux-ha instead of round-robin DNS.  It's got a brighter, more
> predictable future.

i think you are right. Actually if the timeout is too long,  i'm planning to 
use keepalived which use VRRP.
http://keepalived.sourceforge.net/

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Pierre-Yves Verdon <Wanadoo Portails>
Ingenieur Systèmes Unix/Linux 
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References:
- failover timeout.
  - From: "pierre-yves.verdon" <pierre-yves.verdon@wanadooportails.com>
- Re: failover timeout.
  - From: "Medievalist" <ldap@HBCS.Org>

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