Re: Failover and circular replication

[Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Today at 1:12pm, Markus Schaber wrote:

> Is this possible by setting up multiple replication rules making every
> server replicating to every other? Or will we create update loops this
> way? (As I understand, the replication log contains timestamps, so it
> should be possible by slurpd/slapd to achieve this goal, but I don't
> know whether it is implemented in such a way.)

Markus,
  What you are looking for is called "multi-master" in OpenLDAP.  There 
has been quite a bit of discussion on the mailinglists about this.  
Basically, it is possible, but it is full of danger.

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