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Re: ldap hot standby/backup



Asrai khn said the following on 26/02/07 19:19:
> Hi,
> 
> I have configured replica of our master ldap server "ldap.mycompany.com
> <http://ldap.mycompany.com>" using slurpd. ,replica is
> ldap2.mycompany.com <http://ldap2.mycompany.com>. Everything is working
> fine, I checked it by changing some value 'password' at master and it
> got replicated to replica.
> 
> Now I am wondering how to make this setup of master/slave 'hot standby"
> so that if master got down slave takes over, and the ldap client
> applications which using " ldap.ourcompany.com
> <http://ldap.ourcompany.com>" never complain for unavailability  of 
> authentication backend.
> 
> All our ldap clients appication (wiki, ldapphpamdin, our corporate
> portal etc) using ldap.ourcompany.com <http://ldap.ourcompany.com> which
> point to IP of master in our DNS.
> 
> ie DNS records..
> 
> ldap.ourcompany.com <http://ldap.ourcompany.com> -----> IP of master
> ldap server
> ldap2.ourcompany.com <http://ldap2.ourcompany.com> ----> IP of replica
> ldap server
> 
> Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks. Askar
> 

Please search the list archives, this has been asked and answered
numerous times.

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