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Re: replication question
At 11:41 AM 2/15/01 -0500, Bennett Samowich wrote:
>Greets,
>
>I just go replication working between a master directory and two slave
>directories. Any changes to the master get sent to the slaves... great.
>Now for the "dumb" question - it looks like all changes must be made on the
>master. Is that correct?
Yes. The master is the source of authority. The slave only
holds a copy.
>Now for the "maybe it isn't so dumb" question - We create slave for
>redundancy, right?
read redundancy, not write. The LDAP/X.500 data model does not
support multiple master architectures.
>If applications that update the directory are pointed to
>ldap.domain.com which resolves to any of the addresses, what happens (or is
>suppose to happen) if someone makes a change on a slave?
If a client send an update request to a slave, the slave should
(if properly configured) refer the client to the master. The
client then needs to chase this referral to complete the operation.
Kurt