replication question

[Gary Faulkner <garyf@netbotz.com>]

This is perhaps an unrealistic request, or perhaps someone has figured 
out a hack for it.  At any rate, is it possible to have 'peer' 
replication?  I've seen (in the mail archives) the question asked 
several times, but I have not seen a response (perhaps because it truly 
isn't possible).

What I'm trying to setup is a "cloud" of ldap servers on different 
machines that keep each other in sync.

I think this has also been referred to as "symmetric" replication.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?  Writing code is 
certainly an option (although I cannot make a project out of this, at 
least not a long-term one).  

From what I can see, just setting up a "loop" of servers will cause 
what I've seen referred to as a replication-loop... where everyone keeps 
trying to update everything (although I guess what I don't understand at 
first glance is this:  why does a modification that doesn't "modify" 
(well, anything other than perhaps the modification time) cause an entry 
to be placed in the repllog file?  Is this perhaps the place to "hack" 
this modification in??

Thanks!

-garyf