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Re: Does a Slave-server needs to see a Master ?
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Thanks for the replys...
But I can't find any direct connection.
As far as I know PAM-authorizations works through /etc/ldap.conf ??
And in that file only the slave-server is defined !!
Any other suggestions ?
Thanks,
Freerk Bosscha
Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:38:26 +0100 (CET) Pierangelo Masarati
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks for reading this question.
> >
> >
> >
> > We have installed 4 openldap servers. 1 master and 3 slaves.
> >
> > All the changes on the master works fine and are replicated to the
> > slaves.
> >
> >
> >
> > This week I had to switch of the master server, and noticed that our
> > users could
> >
> > not logon to the mail-server which is using ldap-authorisation and
> > should use a
> >
> > slave server for there requests.
> >
> >
> >
> > As soon as I started the master server again, everything works fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > My question is: Is it possible to only use the slave-servers, and if so,
> > how can
> >
> > I configure the slave servers not to connect to the master server.
>
> The slaves do not need to see the server (actually, they don't even
> know they are slaves except for they refuse write operations unless
> the writer has a special DN); in fact OpenLDAP tools use a "push"
> replication scheme (as inherited from UMich's slapd), where the master
> "pushes" changes to the slaves.
>
> It looks like your clients are actually contacting the master
> and totally ignore the slave. IMHO, you should work on this.
>
> Pierangelo.
>
> --
> Pierangelo Masarati
> mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it
>
>
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