Re: Slave accepts updates when master is down !

[Andreas <andreas@conectiva.com.br>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:02:16PM +0200, silknews@free.fr wrote:
> To complete what's precedes : in fact, even if the master openldap server is
> up, i can access to the slave openldap server with the updatedn/binddn and
> update locally the directory (updates that won't propagate to the directory on

Of course you can.

> the master). It is like the "updateref" directive in slapd.conf on slave was
> ignored.

The slave doesn't care if the master is up or not: it only cares about the DN used
for binding. If it is the updatedn, then you can write. If it's not, then you can't
write and it gives you back a referral. It doesn't care where the update is comming from.