Re: OpenLDAP and failover

[Raul Caballero Ortega <rcortega@di.uc3m.es>]

Hi again:


Harry Rüter wrote:

> Yes, but what if one server is down because of 
> network-problems ?
In that case, you depends on the server you can access (if any), with no 
updates.

> Who tells the client to use another server and
> which one ?
The concept is to replicate data on two separated machines, in such a 
way that if one HD fails the services keeps on working, getting data 
from remote host, but this is transparent to the user (he thinks he's 
requesting data from the same source). Obviously a network trouble would 
be agravated.
The configuration on the client to retrieve data from another host I 
think should be made by hand.

May be this is an off-topic, more usefull for on-live replication of 
another kind of systems instead of LDAP servers, sorry.

Good luck  

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