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RE: replication - dns round robin - benefits - updatedn?
> Round robin DNS does not prevent routing queries to dead servers.
I know this, I think..heh...I was referring to round robin to split the load
accross a few servers.........round robin will do this for me though correct?
I would just need a hardware solution for the 'failover' functions....correct?
Thank you again!
--
Terry Davis
Systems Administrator
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
(402) 829-6059
Quoting "Kevin J. McCarthy" <kevin@kogz.com>:
> Round robin DNS does not prevent routing queries to dead servers.
>
> If you need very high availability, several layer 4+ switches (Cisco
> local director, et al) do this in hardware. There are other software
> LDAP routers like iPlanet Directory Access router.
>
> Replication will be necessary for any of these failover situations.
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Davis [mailto:tdavis@birddog.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 5:51 PM
> To: OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: replication - dns round robin - benefits - updatedn?
>
>
> Hello,
> I am pondering the idea of setting up another ldap server and
> replication.
>
> Will replication give me a "redundant" ldap server should my master
> fail? Can
> I balance the load with round robin dns? If so, any docs on how to set
> this up
> effectively?
>
> Another simple problem (i hope) I am having is simply getting my slave
> to refer
> a query to the master. I "heard" a rumor that the updatedn HAS to be
> different
> than the rootdn. Is this true? If so, how does one recommend that I
> setup
> another user for updatedn?
>
> Any other comments and hints concerning this topic, outside of the admin
>
> manual, would be really appreciated.
>
>
> --
> Terry Davis
> Systems Administrator
> BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
> (402) 829-6059
>
>
>
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