Re: Failover and circular replication

[Markus Schaber <schaber@scan-plus.de>]

Hello,

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu> 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.

So I have to look into the list archives to get more information.

Is there any howto or other documentation?

Thanks,
Markus