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Re: Transparent redundancy



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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
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| --On Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:43 PM +0200 Sensei <senseiwa@tin.it> wrote:
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|> All the
|> users acquire informations (naming, home dirs...) on an openldap server.
|> Now, my question about it is: how to make it redundant?
|>
|> We have a quite unreliable network. The server is on one floor and I'm
|> thinking about having a second server on the second floor. I need these
|> two cells to work cooperatively but ``independent'' one from each other.
|>
|> In other words, if the link between the two servers goes down, each
|> floor keep to authenticate and work. Login can work fine, even without
|> the home directory, which can reside on the other server. How can I do
|> this?
|>
|> Do not bother about krb5 or afs. I'm dealing now with the ldap issues.
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| I suggest having several ldap replicas in a load-balance pool, and point
| your systems to use the load balanced pool name.

Or, just list all the ldap server host names instead of the single host
name (if you can't do load-balancing), and all programs using libldap
will fail over to each server in the list.

For example, for nss_ldap (which would imply this is the wrong list for
this question ...) you could have this in /etc/ldap.conf:

host slave1 slave2 master

Regards
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng                                RHCE (803004789010797)
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