Re: LDAP Servers as Multiple-Master?

[Jim Willeke <jim@willeke.com>]

Currently there is a LDUP working group that is addressing the issue of 
standards for LDAP replication.
I do not think any slapd implementation use multi-master but several 
other server providers do. (ie. eDirectory from Novell and W2K from 
Microsoft.)

-jim

Nalneesh Gaur wrote:

> As I understand it SLAPD only has the ability to update from the master to
> slave akin to the DNS Master slave model.  Is it possible to ring the
> master-slaves to have multiple-master?  I am afraid that this would result
> in an endless loop of replication. This is key because as of now the slave
> happily accepts modifications but will not replicate it to the master.  In
> the current scenario the slave is most useful as a read-only database.  has
> anyone had experience with this such that LDAP is configured as a
> multiple-master?
>
> Your thoughts
>
> CM
>
>
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